To avoid an occasion for our virtues is a worse degree of failure than to push forward pluckily and make a fall.

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.

You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.

We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.

A friend is a gift you give yourself.

Do not measure success by today's harvest. Measure success by the seeds you plant today.

Make the most of the best and the least of the worst.

An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.

I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.

Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism, yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.

It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.

Referrals are the privilege of the opportunity given to you by someone else to potentially do business with someone who wants, needs or desires the products or services you offer

Very rarely do you have a perfect race, and it's about overcoming your mistakes in the race and remaining composed.

I think the anti-intellectualism of a lot of contemporary fiction is a kind of despairing of literature's ability to be anything more than perfectly bound blog posts or transcribed sitcoms.

I don't believe my own hype, I just take each day as it comes. And I always feel blessed.

The latest fashion… is absolutely necessary for a painting. It’s what matters most.

Women with pasts interest men because they hope history will repeat itself.

A marching army first crushes the flowers before the enemy; but even before this, it crushes its own conscience! Conscience and killing cannot be together.

You have no idea how much the last few days have meant to me," I began. "Meeting you has been the best thing that's ever happened to me.

No amount of vintage dresses gives you dignity

In life, success begets success.