“Greatness does not come from trying to achieve the possible.”

“A glass of water with peace is better than several glasses of wine with trouble. Here's a glass of water . . . Cheers to the good life”

“Do not be afraid of that which should be afraid of you”

“Do not be afraid of what should be afraid of you”

“Respect means: even in your absence people speak good of your person”

“Be careful of what you assume, what you assume often becomes what you consume”

“If a man does not work passionately - even furiously - at being the best in the world at what he does, he fails his talent, his destiny, and his God.”

“I mean a man whose hopes and aims may sometimes lie (as most men's sometimes do, I dare say) above the ordinary level, but to whom the ordinary level will be high enough after all if it should prov...”

“Not everything you're good at is what you're called to do.”

“Just looking at him made Andrew feel tense and irritated. It was wonder perfect strangers didn't go up to the guy and punch him in the face.”

“If the surprise outcome of the recent UK referendum - on whether to leave or remain in the European Union - teaches us anything, it is that supposedly worthy displays of democracy in action can act...”

“Fiction, at the point of development at which it has arrived, demands from the writer a spirit of scrupulous abnegation.The only legitimate of all the irreconcilable antagonisms that make our life ...”