A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit.
Fortune sides with him who dares.
All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.
It would be curious to discover who it is to whom one writes in a diary. Possibly to some mysterious personification of one's own identity.
The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
Those who persevere in sin are those who are held in abhorrence by God, but those who abandon the ways of sin are loved by the Lord.
All hope abandon, ye who enter here!
Old books that have ceased to be of service should no more be abandoned than should old friends who have ceased to give pleasure.
The millions who watch 'Downton Abbey' do so neither relating to the Granthams nor hating them. It's an amused enjoyment of spectacle.
But there's no reason why we should abdicate our foundational principles because certain groups don't believe in them. You know, no majority should surrender its deeply held beliefs to those who don't believe in anything.
In Davos during the WEF, we have government heads like David Cameron, Shinzo Abe, Tony Abbott, and Dilma Rousseff. These are the people who can actually get something done.
For example, a man who might not have enormous charisma, who could be president 40 years ago, and who was a deserving president, I don't know that George Washington would be a president today, I don't know that Abe Lincoln would, I don't know that Roosevelt would.
I'm inspired by the example of Prime Minister Abe, who overcame many challenges after his first term as prime minister to successfully return to the highest office in Japan six years later, and is now hopefully leading Japan in an extremely promising direction.
People who abhor solitude may abhor company almost as much.
Those who abhors democracy would rarely immigrate to an authoritarian state if they have to.
Time abides long enough for those who make use of it.
He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man.
Those who trust to chance must abide by the results of chance.
Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious.