Victory is not won in miles but in inches.

A man's gotta do what a man's gotta do

A man can lose sight of everything else when he's bent on revenge, and it ain't worth it.

Trade is much superior to piracy. You can rob and kill a man but once, but you can cheat him again and again.

If you're going to be a writer, the first essential is just to write. Do not wait for an idea. Start writing something and the ideas will come. You have to turn the faucet on before the water starts to flow.

To exist is to adapt, and if one could not adapt, one died and made room for those who could.

For one who reads, there is no limit to the number of lives that may be lived, for fiction, biography, and history offer an inexhaustible number of lives in many parts of the world, in all periods of time.