The difference between ambition and discontent is quite a fine line and sometimes it is hard to tell which is which and which you are feeling!

A little town is like a lantern. Nothing's hid from sight.

Too much good fortune can make you smug and unaware. Happiness should be like an oasis, the greener for the desert that surrounds it.

When I was young they used to say people only threw stones at the tree that was loaded with fruit.

It's terrible when the weak are also cruel for then we are defenseless against them.

I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.

One of the pleasantest things about book writing is that sometimes it brings one in touch with old friends.

I've seen public opinion shift like the wind and put out the very fire it lighted.

...his hoofbeats fall like rain, over and over again.

Doorbells are like a magic game, Or the grab-bag at a fair -- You never know when you hear one ring Who may be waiting there.

And scandal has a way of catching up with those who disregard its power.

Success is that old ABC - ability, breaks and courage.

The avant-garde is now an arrière-garde.

The extremes of jungles, mountains, and deserts are inherently dangerous places.

A lack of direction and meaning can leave you empty.

Mysticism is an eclectic mixture of various forms of self-discovery that's primarily experimental.

If you believe, as I do, that your employees truly are your most valuable asset, you will do whatever you can to help them do their jobs as well as possible.

As I'm writing it, I'm kind of curious to see what's going to happen. It almost feels like I'm the writer and I'm the listener, too.

You need to treat your finances as a resource God has provided to fulfill your vision, not a tool to fill your life with luxuries

Time is, of all modes of existence, most obsequious to the imagination.

[...] things most people do naturally are often inexplicably difficult for me.