"What is meant by ''reality''? It would seem to be something very erratic, very undependable -- now to be found in a dusty road, now in a scrap of newspaper in the street, now a daffodil in the sun. It lights up a group in a room and stamps some casual saying"

"Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible."

"Novels so often provide an anodyne and not an antidote, glide one into torpid slumbers instead of rousing one with a burning brand."

"Without self-confidence we are as babes in the cradles. And how can we generate this imponderable quality, which is yet so invaluable most quickly? By thinking that other people are inferior to oneself."

"It will be all over this day week - comfort - discomfort; and the zest and rush that no engagements, hours, habits give. Then we shall take them up again with more than the zest of traveling."

"You have to put in many, many, many tiny efforts that nobody sees or appreciates before you achieve anything worthwhile."

"Move out of your comfort zone. You can only grow if you are willing to feel awkward and uncomfortable when you try something new."

"I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often."

"Your decision to be, have and do something out of ordinary entails facing difficulties that are out of the ordinary as well. Sometimes your greatest asset is simply your ability to stay with it longer than anyone else."

"Invest three percent of your income in yourself (self-development) in order to guarantee your future."

"When you engage in systematic, purposeful actin, using and stretching your abilities to the maximum, you cannot help but feel positive and confident abut yourself."

"Sir, you are giving a reason for it, but that will not make it right"

"All wonder is the effect of novelty on ignorance"

"No one ever became great by imitation."

"He was dull in a new way, and that made many think him great."

"Extended empires are like expanded gold, exchanging solid strength for feeble splendor."

"For who is pleased with himself."

"He who does not mind his belly, will hardly mind anything else."

"Questioning is not the mode of conversation among gentlemen."

"Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree. We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us."

"The blaze of reputation cannot be blown out, but it often dies in the socket; a very few names may be considered as perpetual lamps that shine unconsumed."

"Worth seeing? Yes; but not worth going to see."

"One cause, which is not always observed, of the insufficiency of riches, is that they very seldom make their owner rich."

"Difficult do you call it, Sir? I wish it were impossible."