Women have to summon courage to fulfill dormant dreams.
The most learned, acute, and diligent student cannot, in the longest life, obtain an entire knowledge of this one volume.
Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.
Without courage there cannot be truth, and without truth there can be no other virtue.
A sound head, an honest heart, and an humble spirit are the three best guides through time and to eternity.
If you once turn on your side after the hour at which you ought to rise, it is all over. Bolt up at once.
Caution comes too late when we are in the midst of evils.
I've learned so much from my failures that I'm thinking of having some more.
I have a longing for fiction - to try to believe in it and to disappear into it.
This poet is a griot in search of a village.
Call a thing immoral or ugly, soul-destroying or a degradation to man, a peril to the peace of the world or to the well-being of future generations: as long as you have not shown it to be "uneconomic" you have not really questioned its right to exist, grow, and prosper.