When considering a man's motives, remember you must not measure his wheat with your bushel. He may not be using the same standard at all.

Boredom is vastly underrated. Boredom means that nothing is trying to kill you every day.

Anticipating pain was like enduring it twice. Why not anticipate pleasure instead?

Leave the pain behind and let your life be your own again. There is a place where all time is now, and the choices are simple and always your own. Wolves have no kings

There is little in life so reassuring as a genuine welcome.

Stop longing.You poison today’s ease, reaching always for tomorrow.

When you cut pieces out of the truth to avoid looking like a fool you end up looking like a moron instead.

Tomorrow owes you the sum of your yesterdays. No more than that. And no less.

Diplomacy is the velvet glove that cloaks the fist of power.

Look forward, not back. Correct your course and go on. You cannot undo yesterday's journey.

Do you not see how strange and wonderful that is? That all history balances on an affair of the human heart?

For every God-given goal, He gives grace to accomplish it.

Be prepared before you set off to work on your dreams. Prior preparation is success divided by half. The more prepared you are, the easier your success. Set off.

She harbored the childhood presumption that the truly scary things could only find her in the night.

We should have just killed him, that's a lesson, don't get creative with revenge

Why am I so weak, why do I care so much?What is holding on, what's wrong with me..

Does this boat go to Europe, France?

No one's happiness but my own is in my power to achieve or to destroy.

How do wars start? Diplomats tell lies to journalists, then believe what they read.

I've never written nearly as much about place as people seem to think I do. I just write about class.

I have fished through fishless days that I remember happily without regret.