There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.
Anyone who has gumption knows what it is, and anyone who hasn't can never know what it is. So there is no need of defining it.
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth?Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.
He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.
The most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek.
I've gone into hundreds of fortune-teller's parlors, and have been told thousands of things, but nobody ever told me I was a policewoman getting ready to arrest her.
Your world is made of your memories, and your memories are given to you by your world. The whispering voice of happenstance is always in our ears. 'This is the world. This is the way things are. Look. Pay attention. Remember.'