People don't ever seem to realize that doing what's right, writes no guarantee against misfortune.

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.

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

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.

The key to understanding any people is in its art: its writing, painting, sculpture.

It's the geek who gets the girl, not the jock.

We follow our scripts like actors in a very large, very long production. And even with no audience, none of us gives a hint that it isn't real.

He sought...to transform the grief which looks down into the grave by showing it the grief which looks up to the stars.

Cease endlessly striving for what you would like to do and learn to love what must be done.

I wanted to be an English teacher. I wanted to do it for the corduroy jackets with patches on the side.

Seek simplicity, and distrust it.

See the opportunity in the misstep.

Your thoughts are like the seeds you plant in your garden. Your beliefs are like the soil in which you plant these seeds.

Mature? Yeah, I get told that a lot. I don't know if it's true. I guess I try to be bright.