Strive to realize a state of inward happiness, independent of circumstances.
Books have become products, like cereal or perfume or deodorant.
Should-haves solve nothing. It's the next thing to happen that needs thinking about.
One of the injustices of the world was that it was so easy to make the innocent and caring ones happy with so little.
To anyone with a drop of Irish blood in them the land they live on is like their mother. It's the only thing that lasts, that's worth working for, for fighting for
But you know who you are when you're on your own out there in all that emptiness. There's no past, no holding on to the scraps that are all you've got left. Everything is that minute, or maybe tomorrow, not yesterday.
You belong with me, Scarlett, haven't you figured that out? And the world is where we belong, all of it. We're not home-and-hearth people. We're the adventurers, the buccaneers, the blockade runners. Without challenge, we're only half alive. We can go anywhere, and as long as we're together, it will belong to us. But, my pet, we'll never belong to it. That's for other people, not for us.
What do you want from me?” – Nick “Normally, it’d be your life and your soul. Unfortunately, I can’t take either right now. Sucks to be me today. ” – Death
The English public always feels perfectly at ease when a mediocrity is talking to it.
Live each day as if was your last, not in the future, not in the past. You may not get what you want, but, in the long run, you will get what you expect.
I'm very good at noticing talent. I knew he was special then and obviously he is now.