We don't have enough time to premeditate all our actions.

The most absurd and reckless aspirations have sometimes led to extraordinary success.

Patience is the art of hoping.

The lazy are always wanting to do something.

The greatest achievement of the human spirit is to live up to one's opportunities and make the most of one's resources.

Prosperity makes few friends.

Prosperity makes some friends and many enemies.

He who knows how to suffer everything can dare everything.

There are those who are so scrupulously afraid of doing wrong that they seldom venture to do anything.

Man never rises to great truths without enthusiasm.

The mind reaches great heights only by spurts.

Damien glared at the buxom beauty before him and almost gave in to the urge to strangle her himself.

Don’t stop searching for opportunities until opportunities find you.

Life is what you make it. Always has been, always will be.

Isn't it splendid to think of all the things there are to find out about? It just makes me feel glad to be alive- it's such an interesting world.

A plant-based diet is like a one-stop shop against chronic diseases.

The faith that stands on authority is not faith.

The process of growth is obviously critical to my understanding of the land and myself. So the process is far more unpredictable with far more compromises with the day, the weather, the material.

Her father said she was a princess. He did not see that she was a brave knight.

The more intelligent and cultured a man is, the more subtly he can humbug himself.

I did what most writers do when something happens that's overwhelming, fascinating, moving, all of that. I didn't know what else to do about it except write about it.