Weak people can be very stubborn.
Most people's first books are their best anyways. It's the one they wanted most to write.
A man may own a ship, but unless he is captain of a crew he goes where the ship goes.
The truth of anything at all doesn't lie in someone's account of it. It lies in all the small facts of the time. An advertisement in a paper, the sale of a house, the price of a ring.
Nothing in this world came out of satisfaction. Except the human race.
You can't have a tin can tied to your tail and go through life pretending it isn't there.