Your life is a reflection of your thoughts. If you change your thinking, you change your life.
I have found my voice again and the art of using it.
It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.
There are no ordinary cats.
Sit down and put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff's worth, without pity, and destroy most of it.
Chance, my master and my friend, will, I feel sure, deign once again to send me the spirits of his unruly kingdom. All my trust is now in him- and in myself. But above all in him, for when I go under he always fishes me out, seizing and shaking me like a life-saving dog whose teeth tear my skin a little every time. So now, whenever I despair, I no longer expect my end, but some bit of luck, some commonplace little miracle which, like a glittering link, will mend again the necklace of my days.
I love my past, I love my present. I am not ashamed of what I have had, and I am not sad because I no longer have it.
Empire may be gained by gold, not gold by empire. It used, indeed, to be a proverb that "It is not Philip, but Philip's gold that takes the cities of Greece.
He said something was unique: I like to push the limit to how much air we can put in the football, even go over what they allow you to do, and see if the officials take air out of it.
Life is like riding in a taxi. Whether you are going anywhere or not, the meter keeps ticking.
Power confuses itself with virtue and tends also to take itself for omnipotence.