Not getting what you want either means you don't want it enough, or you have been dealing too long with the price you have to pay.

It takes a great deal of Christianity to wipe out uncivilized Eastern instincts, such as falling in love at first sight.

He travels the fastest who travels alone.

And the end of the fight is tombstone white with the name of the late deceased, and the epitaph drear, "A Fool lies here who tried to hustle the East."

Yet there be certain times in a young man’s life, when, through great sorrow or sin, all the boy in him is burnt and seared away so that he passes at one step to the more sorrowful state of manhood

Many wear the robes, but few walk the Way." The Lama in Kim

I had never seen the jungle. They fed me behind bars from an iron pan till one night I felt that I was Bagheera - the Panther - and no man's plaything, and I broke the silly lock with one blow of my paw and came away; and because I had learned the ways of men, I became more terrible in the jungle than Shere Khan.