“The smallest coffins are the heaviest.”

A man can be destroyed but not defeated.

No one you love is ever truly lost.

Optimism can keep a fool from accepting failure.

A cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelings, but a cat does not.

Any man’s life, told truly, is a novel.

There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering; all the rest are merely games.

Work could cure almost anything.

No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.

The only thing that can ruin a good day is people.

Being against evil doesn’t make you good.

How little we know of what there is to know.

Night is always darker before the dawn and life is the same, the hard times will pass, every thing will get better and sun will shine brighter then ever.

We wait always for something that does not come.

Would you please please please please please please please stop talking?

Show the readers everything, tell them nothing.

You never understand anybody that loves you.

Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.

A slip of the foot you may soon recover, but a slip of the tongue you may never get over.

Reality can be beaten with enough imagination.

There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.

When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.

The time is always right to do the right thing.

One’s desire, not ability, determines success.

Some people feel the rain. Others just get wet.