Quotes – Page 3

Living, being in the world, was a much greater and stranger thing that she had ever dreamed.

How do I know, that you are what you seem to be?

You don't. - I don't know what I seem, to you.

It's easy to fool fools.

She is like a little fish, a minnow, that swims in a clear creek, defenseless, yet you cannot catch her.

Those who travel thus say no word carelessly.

What is a boat but a thing that doesn't leak water.

Are you messenger or message?

He who throws away his power is filled sometimes with a far greater power.

You thought, as a boy, that a an is one who can do anything. So i thought, once. So did we all. And the truth is that as a man's real power grows and his knowledge widens, ever the way he can follow grows narrower: until at last he chooses nothing, but does only and wholly what he must do...

To light a candle is to cast a shadow...

Manhood is patience. Mastery is nine times patience.

Of course there's nothing wrong with reaching a hundred, but if you can't reach a hundread, then reach ten. And if you can't reach ten, then reach one - because that one may reach a million.