“And whichsoever way thou goest, may fortune follow.”

It seems wisest to assume the worst from the beginning, and let anything better come as a surprise.

On the earth, even in the darkest night, the light never wholly abandons his rule. It is diffused and subtle, but little as may remain, the retina of the eye is sensible of it.

An English criminal, you know is always better concealed in London than anywhere else.

When the mind once allows a doubt to gain entrance, the value of deeds performed grow less, their character changes, we forget the past and dread the future.

What you do for money you do badly.

I saw the world. I learnt of new cultures. I flew across an ocean. I wore women’s clothing. Made a friend. Fell in love. Who cares if I lost a wager?

Man is so constituted that health is a purely negative state. Hunger once satisfied, it is difficult for a man to imagine the horrors of starvation; they cannot be understood without being felt.

We now know most things that can be measured in this world, except the bounds of human ambition!

Nature’s creative power is far beyond man’s instinct of destruction.

Travel enables us to enrich our lives with new experiences, to enjoy and to be educated, to learn respect for foreign cultures, to establish friendships, and above all to contribute to international cooperation and peace throughout the world.

Anything you can imagine you can make real.

Scent is the soul of flowers, and sea flowers, as splendid as they may be, have no soul!

There is hope for the future, and when the world is ready for a new and better life, all these things will some day come to pass, – in God’s good time.

But to find, all at once, right before your eyes, that the impossible had been mysteriously achieved by man himself: this staggers the mind!

The sole precoccupation of this learned society was the destruction of humanity for philanthropic reasons and the perfection of weapons as instruments of civilization.

There are no impossible obstacles; there are just stronger and weaker wills, that’s all!

Rejoicing in ordinary things is not sentimental or trite. It actually takes guts. Each time we drop our complaints and allow everyday good fortune to inspire us, we enter the warrior’s world.

Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.

The phoenix hope, can wing her way through the desert skies, and still defying fortune’s spite; revive from ashes and rise.

The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the sum of his own works.

Fame and fortune does not mean anything if you don’t have a happy home.

Fortune may have yet a better success in reserve for you and they who lose today may win tomorrow.

Let us rejoice at the many unexplored fields in which there is unlimited fame and fortune to the successful explorer.

Summer was made to give you a taste of what hell is like. Winter was made for landladies to charge high rents and keep cold radiators and make a fortune off of poor tenants.