I guess there might come a point when I will want to live an anonymous life. I'm only at the start of my career, so I'm sure that moment will come, but I know how blessed I am to have this platform on which to speak and influence.

Sow to the wind and you will reap a whirlwind.

Bible

At the very end of a book I can manage to work for longer stretches, but mostly, making stuff up for three hours, that's enough. I can't do any more. At the end of the day I might tinker with my morning's work and maybe write some again. But I think three hours is fine.

Peter Carey

He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times.

Friedrich Schiller

There are two kinds of people in the world. Those who walk into a room and say, There you are and those who say, Here I am

Abigail Van Buren

When work is a pleasure, life is joy.! When work is a duty, life is slavery.

Maxim Gorky

One does not need buildings, money, power, or status to practice the Art of Peace. Heaven is right where you are standing, and that is the place to train.

Morihei Ueshiba

We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions.

Henry Fielding

It is our relation to circumstances that determine their influence over us. The same wind that blows one ship into port may blow another off shore.

Christian Nevell Bovee

Your problem is to bridge the gap which exists between where you are now and the goal you intend to reach.

Earl Nightingale

Friendships begun in this world will be taken up again, never to be broken off.

St. Francis De Sales

As soon as you begin to believe in something, then you can no longer see anything else. The truth you believe in and cling to makes you unavailable to hear anything new.

Pema Chodron, The Wisdom of No E

There has never been a protracted war from which a country has benefited.

Sun Tzu