Owning is owing, having is hoarding.

To break a promise is to deny the reality of the past. Therefore it is to deny the hope of a real future.

When you light a candle, you also cast a shadow.

If you're a fiction writer, though, I can tell you how to let people talk through you. Listen. Just be quiet, and listen. Let the character talk. Don't censor, don't control. Listen, and write.

What is the use trying to describe the flowing of a river at any one moment, and then at the next moment, and then at the next, and the next, and the next? You wear out. You say: There is a great river, and it flows through this land, and we have named it History.

The hunger of a dragon is slow to wake, but hard to sate.

Morning comes whether you set the alarm or not.