“We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.”

He who faces no calamity gains no courage.

There are gems of wondrous brightness Often times lying at our feet, And we pass them, walking thoughtless, Down the busy, crowded street. If we knew, our pace would slacken, We would step more oft with care, Lest our careless feet be treading To the earth some jewel rare.

I have seen something of this world,” she said over the trays, “and there are but two sorts of women in it– those who take the strength out of a man, and those who put it back. Once I was that one, and now I am this.

If you want something and don’t get it, there are only two reasons. You either really didn’t want it, or you tried to bargain over the price.

Cat said, ‘I am not a friend, and I am not a Servant. I am the Cat who walks by himself, and I wish to come into your Cave.’

Cities and Thrones and Powers Stand in Time’s eye, Almost as long as flowers, Which daily die.

In the jungle, life and food depend on keeping your temper.

Delight in the little things.

All the money in the world is no use to a man or his country if he spends it as fast as he makes it. All he has left is his bills and the reputation for being a fool.

For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.

Many religious people are deeply suspicious. They seem, for purely religious purposes, of course, to know more about iniquity than the unregenerate.

One cannot resist the lure of Africa.

The glory of the garden lies in more than meets the eye.

Asia is not going to be civilized after the methods of the West. There is too much Asia and she is too old.

When the Man waked up he said, ‘What is Wild Dog doing here?’ And the Woman said, ‘His name is not Wild Dog any more, but the First Friend, because he will be our friend for always and always and always.’

I have struck a city – a real city – and they call it Chicago… I urgently desire never to see it again. It is inhabited by savages.

If I were to say, ‘God, why me?’ about the bad things, then I should have said, ‘God, why me?’ about the good things that happened in my life.

Always have the situation under control, even if losing. Never betray an inward sense of defeat.

I hate failure and I am in love with achievement.

My greatest fear is that I’ll fail my kids.

Of all the causes which conspire to blind Man’s erring judgement, and misguide the mind, What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is PRIDE, the never-failing vice of fools.

Feel lost in the magic we call life. Feel humble in the miracles of success. Feel grateful in what lies beneath our failures. For our sun shines only to rise again.

When i started flirting with the hustle, failure became my ex, now I’m engaged to the game and married to success.

The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.