Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Youth is in danger until it learns to look upon debts as furies.

Debt is to man what the serpent is to the bird; its eye fascinates, its breath poisons, its coil crushes sinew and bone, its jaw is the pitiless grave.

When the mind is perfectly clear, what is is what we want.

Certain flaws are necessary for the whole. It would seem strange if old friends lacked certain quirks.

We may appear to be mean, but we’re really only frightened.

The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.

A person that started in to carry a cat home by the tail was getting knowledge that was always going to be useful to him, and warn’t ever going to grow dim or doubtful.

You are your own most important resource for making your life work. Life rewards action. Until your knowledge, awareness, insights, and understandings are translated into action, they are of no value.

The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.

From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.

I ask you to go back and read them over again, and this time answer “Self-acceptance was the foundation of the happiest time in your life and it was the engine that powered the train.

Power begins with having a crystal-clear view of reality and what each and every person in your life is driven by.

Whenever you think it’s the end, it’s probably just the start of something else.

Credulity is the man’s weakness but the child’s strength.

Golf is a good walk spoiled.

A man’s character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.

The trouble with being punctual is that nobody’s there to appreciate it.