Don't wait for the right opportunity: create it.
I sold flowers. I didn't sell myself. Now you've made a lady of me I'm not fit to sell anything else.
Our lives are shaped not as much by our experiences as by our expectations.
Marry Ann; and at the end of a week you'll find no more inspiration in her than in a plate of muffins.
Only in books has mankind known perfect truth, love and beauty.
There is nothing that can be changed more completely than human nature when the job is taken in hand early enough.