Life isn't about finding yourself; it's about creating yourself. So live the life you imagined.

There have been heroes for whom this world seemed expressly prepared, as if creation had at last succeeded; whose daily life was the stuff of which our dreams are made, and whose presence enhanced the beauty and ampleness of Nature herself.

Books are to be distinguished by the grandeur of their topics even more than by the manner in which they are treated.

It is what a man thinks of himself that really determines his fate.

Invariably our best nights were those when it rained.

What a fool he must be who thinks that his El Dorado is anywhere but where he lives.

Fresh curls spring from the baldest brow. There is nothing inorganic.