Greatness is more than potential. It is the execution of that potential. Beyond the raw talent. You need the appropriate training. You need the discipline. You need the inspiration. You need the drive.
I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.
I lived what most people call the good life. I was happy, but deep inside I always felt that, with the short amount of time we are given to live and love in this world, we spend too much time loving things instead of people.
Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within, as on the state of things without and around us.
I've been on a diet for two weeks and all I've lost is two weeks.
We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
None are so busy as the fool and knave.