When you know that language, it's easy to believe that someone in the world awaits you, whether it's in the middle of the desert or in some great city… without such love, one's dreams would have no meaning.

Every blessing ignored becomes a curse.  I don't want anything else in life.  But you are forcing me to look at wealth and at horizons I have never known.  Now that I have seen them, and now that I see how immense my possibilities are, I'm going to feel worse than I did before you arrived.  Because I know the things I should be able to accomplish, and I don't want to do so.

It was my fear of failure that first kept me from attempting the master work.  Now, I'm beginning what I could have started ten years ago.  But I'm happy at least that I didn't wait twenty years.

Life attracts life.

He realized that he had to choose between thinking of himself as the poor victim of a thief and as an adventurer in quest of his treasure.

I'm an adventurer, looking for treasure, he said to himelf.

He had not a cent in his pocket, but he had faith.  He had decided, the night before, that he would be as much an adventurer as the ones he had admired in books.

We have to take advantage when luck is on our side, and do as much to help it as it's doing to help us.