It is extraordinary how many emotional storms one may weather in safety if one is ballasted with ever so little gold.

If fate means you to lose, give him a good fight anyhow.

The world is not interested in the storms you encountered, but did you bring in the ship?

Terrible and sublime thought, that every moment is supreme for some man and woman, every hour the apotheosis of some passion!

The world belongs to the enthusiast who keeps cool.

A young man must let his ideas grow, not be continually rooting them up to see how they are getting on.

One must choose between obscurity with efficiency, and fame with its inevitable collateral of bluff.

There is a pleasure unknown to the landsman in reading at sea.

There is nothing like an odor to stir memories.

Responsibility's like a string we can only see the middle of. Both ends are out of sight.

Wives invariably flourish when deserted; ... it is the deserting male, the reckless idealist rushing about the world seeking a non-existent felicity, who often ends in disaster.

In the end, we live to serve the Saviour, who liberates us.

Are you okay?" "Fan-fricking-tastic. Only way today could get better is if I were scheduled for an appendectomy. Without drugs. In a third-world country.

Some times we choose our fate, ” she said. “Other times it’s chosen for us.” The cleft between his dark brows deepened and his jaw clenched then released. “And sometimes its what we make it.

The tides rolled up to crash against the shore while we sat feet from one another with the remnants of all we’d left unsaid driving us apart.

I've never had anyone define purity. You probably can't define purity. Purity is to live according to original design.

I've sold my soul for freedom. It's lonely but it's sweet.

Is there one specific source that determines correct morality and everybody should follow that? Or should individuals come up with following that source or not depending on their situation?

You will do well to cultivate the resources in yourself that bring you happiness outside of success or failure.

Logic is the hygiene the mathematician practices to keep his ideas healthy and strong.

The trouble with improv is that it is often about being funny in the moment without any real consideration for the bigger picture.