An adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.

It'swhen you're safe at home that you wish you were having an adventure. When you'rehaving an adventure you wish you were safe at home.

The fire you kindle for your enemy often burns yourself more than him.

If you are standing upright, don't worry if your shadow is crooked.

Earnest people are often people who habitually look on the serious side of things that have no serious side

None but the productive can be strong; and none but the strong can be free.

Fortune makes a fool of him whom she favours too much

The cliche that education never ends virtually ensures that it does'nt begin.

It'sthe repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that beliefbecomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.

There is all the difference in the world between having something to say and havingto say something.

A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after while he gets to know something.

Knowingthat everything's futile but still fighting, still raging against the dying ofthe light that's what motivates me all the time ... If you hold that sense offutility in your head for too long, it can begin to eat into you. You canstill be aware of it