“We are the middle children of history. Born too late to explore earth, born too early to explore space.”

Books don’t just go with you, they take you where you’ve never been.

Above all else, guard your heart for it affects everything else you do.

Never let your fears be the boundaries of your dreams.

Everything is possible for him who believes.

You are what you think. All that you are arises from your thoughts. With your thoughts you make your world.

Ignore the noise, focus on your work.

When you feel like quitting think about why you started.

People saying that vegans are weak clearly have no idea of how much strength it takes to stand up for what you believe in.

Business doesn’t need more copycats. Business needs more Dreamers.

Q – that’s what I’ll call this new world, Aomame decided. Q is for question mark. A world that bears a question.

Rather than a problem to be solved, the world is a joyful mystery to be contemplated with gladness and praise.

Anonymity beats fame. One cannot undo fame.

Who can find a virtuous woman? For her price is far above rubies.

You can feel sore tomorrow or you can feel sorry tomorrow. You choose.

Allah causes the night and the day to succeed each other. Truly, in these things is indeed a lesson for those who have insight.

Observe without judgement.

Because my parents, growing up, they worked hard. Everyone in my family woke up early in the morning. I used to see my mother and my father go off to work, and come back and, no matter what, they had time for the kids.

One of the most graceful of warriors is the robin. I know few prettier sights than two males challenging and curveting about each other upon the grass in early spring. Their attentions to each other are so courteous and restrained.

Nearly every season, I make the acquaintance of one or more new flowers. It takes years to exhaust the botanical treasures of any one considerable neighborhood, unless one makes a dead set at it, like an herbalist.

I find that something one gets from Emerson in early life does not leave him when he grows old.

Get up tomorrow early in the morning, and earlier than you did today, and do the best that you can.

I used to be so angry. I think back to my early days as a critic in the late 1990s, and I blush.

I have quite good general knowledge and I had a very drilled education from an early age. I do know more than most people.

The ones I am going to have to really work hard on early in the game to get what I want.