“There is more to life than making a living. Do not work more than you live.”

“The employed are punished by having to do what they do not love. The self-employed are punished by the opposite.”

“Most people do not mind having a house that is smaller and/or a car that is cheaper than their neighbours, as long as they each earn and have more money than their neighbours, and, equally importan...”

“We have glorified wealth and freedom so much that it is impossible for most of us to truly believe that a man can truly be happy in a shack or within the confines of a prison cell.”

“Culture is a symbolic veil with which we hide our animal nature from ourselves and other animals.”

“Plagiarism is the fear of a blank page.”

“You cannot write your character until you know how he or she thinks, until you know what their philosophy is in the world that they occupy.”

“What I've learned about writing is that sometimes less is more, while often more is grander. And both are true.”

“She had an ability to love that went beyond my ability to grasp the slightest concept of what love was.”

“A good lover? One percent talent and ninety nine percent hard work.”

“No one plows the field just by thinking about it.”

“We have glorified wealth and freedom so much that it is impossible for most of us to truly believe that a man can truly be happy in a shack or within the confines of a prison cell.”

“To have luck and fail to act on it is tantamount to not having luck at all. In fact, it was worse. Barnes thought back to his self-help manuals. They all proclaimed with compelling force the necess...”

“If there is anyone who owes everything to Bach, it is certainly God.”

“Say not you know another entirely, till you have divided an inheritance with him.”