Perseverance brings good luck.

But human beings are like that, she thought. We've replaced nearly all our emotions with fear.

A Warrior trusts other people because, first and foremost, he trusts himself.

When the songs of your heart start singing, you should listen...for its harmony will bring you happiness and the melody is the voice of your true spirit.

It may arrive in the instant when we are doing something mundane, like putting our front-door key in the lock; it may lie hidden in the quiet that follows the lunch hour or in the thousand and one things that all seem the same to us.

What people regard as vanity—leaving great works, having children, acting in such a way as to prevent one's name from being forgotten—I regard as the highest expression of human dignity.

You have two types of writers: one like Proust who was locked in his room and wrote the masterpiece. And the other type was Hemingway who celebrated life and also wrote a masterpiece.