The strongest factor for success is self-belief.
The purpose of fiction is to take you out of your own life and make you aware of other lives.
The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.
To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates.
Wisdom comes to us when it can no longer do any good.
"The best stories are the ones that stay with you long after you've finished reading."