From a relatively early age I got interested in business
You'll find as you grow older that you weren't born such a great while ago after all. The time shortens up.
It is the still, small voice that the soul heeds, not the deafening blasts of doom.
A man never sees all that his mother has been to him until it's too late to let her know that he sees it.
The secret of a man who is universally interesting is that he is universally interested.
The wars come and go in blood and tears; but whether they are bad wars, or what are comically called good wars, they are of one effect in death and sorrow.
He who sleeps in continual noise is wakened by silence.
I want a world without war. War never works it just kills. I want my children to never have to have a close contact with war. I want my children and future generations to grow up free and in a peaceful world. War is not freedom it is a malignant force imposed by men in power. We must change the views of people in power now and let them know that in a diplomatic and peaceful way issues can be solved.
But I think we were walking around like we were invincible. And maybe that's a bad way to live your life. Because you're not invincible. Nobody is. And maybe now that we've learned that, we'll be better.
We should try to succeed by merit, not by favor. He who does well will always have patrons enough. [Lat. , Virtute ambire oportet, non favitoribus. Sat habet favitorum semper, qui recte facit. ]
I never do a full outline, and if I did, I would not feel bound to it, because the view from inside a scene can be different from the view outside it. But neither do I just start writing and see what happens; I am far more disciplined than that.