There are many good fishermen and some great ones. But there is only one you.

'Safety', the wife of Pablo said. 'There is no such thing as safety. There are so many seeking safety here now that they make a great danger. In seeking safety now you lose all.'

You expected to be sad in the fall. Part of you died each year when the leaves fell from the trees and their branches were bare against the wind and the cold, wintery light. But you knew there would always be the spring, as you knew the river would flow again after it was frozen. When the cold rains kept on and killed the spring, it was as though a young person died for no reason.

One cat just leads to another." [Letter from Finca Vigia, Cuba, to his first wife, Elizabeth Hadley Richardson (1943).]

Only that which makes you feel bad after doing is immoral.

The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.

Before you react, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you criticize, wait. Before you quit, try.