Ancient simplicity is gone...the people of today are satisfied with nothing but finery.

In life it is training rather than birth which counts.

Like ice beneath the sun's rays - to such poverty did he fall...his fortune melted to water.

No longer can a young woman feel at ease; for she is ever concerned with the impression that she may be making on others.

To make a fortune some assistance from fate is essential. Ability alone is insufficient.

The first consideration for all, throughout life, is the earning of a living.

Take care! Kingdoms are destroyed by bandits, houses by rats, and widows by suitors.

If we live by subhuman means we might as well never have had the good fortune to be born human.

If making money is a slow process, losing it is quickly done.

To think twice in every matter and follow the lead of others is no way to make money.

Though mothers and fathers give us life, it is money alone which preserves it.

Sung Win smiled to himself, enjoying the tension across his shoulders and the way his pulse beat in his veins. All life involved risk.

I like the idea of trying to write a book in every genre.

Forgiveness is not generally something that you find as a coin to be used by politicians.

Dictatorships are never as strong as they think they are, and people are never as weak as they think they are.

If I had my own Neverland it would probably be the coolest place in the world. You could do anything you want there. There would be trees everywhere.

If I am hated at Barcelona, it is their problem but not mine. Fear is not a word in my football dictionary.

Never buy gold, simply earn it

For serenity, always prefer the cottage to the palace!

Every town has an Elm Street.

Some people, when they die, leave so much life behind that we wonder how they did it.