On their deathbed men will speak true, they say.

A man that flies from his fear may find that he has only taken a short cut to meet it.

Why must you speak your thoughts? Silence, if fair words stick in your throat, would serve all our ends better.

Grief is a hone to a hard mind.

This was the first of the sorrows of Turin.

Perhaps it is better not to tell what you wish. if you cannot have it.

But whenever I say that I will do this or that, it looks very different when the time comes.

Do you feel it? That roaring call?

It is said that a wise man who stands firm is a statesman and a foolish man who stands firm is a catastrophe.

Death without the possibility of ever changing the world is the same as a life that never was.

Everyone keeps asking me: 'Are you going to win?' How on earth do you know if you're going to win or not?

Private equity has absolutely no reason to exist. The private equity holder has all the upside and the banks all the downside.

Writing is work, but it's also a compulsion, and once you get your characters on paper, you can't abandon them. You have to respond to them.

We must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day had been.

We shouldn't just think about mammograms and self-exams and self-care once a year. It should be an ongoing thing.

What we project, we get back.

I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.