"The harder I prepare, the luckier I seem to get."

“Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.”

“You will not experience all life has to offer you or begin to experience life at its fullest as long as you are satisfied with mediocrity. You have to be disgusted with your current circumstances before your circumstances can change.”

“Be the inspiration you want to see in others”

“Do you begin to see, then, what kind of world we are creating? It is the exact opposite of the stupid hedonistic Utopias that the old reformers imagined. A world of fear and treachery and torment, a world of trampling and being trampled upon, a world which will grow not less but more merciless as it refines itself. Progress in our world will be progress toward more pain.”

“What I find is that you can do almost anything or go almost anywhere, if you're not in a hurry.”

Source : Paul Theroux (2006). “The Happy Isles of Oceania: Paddling the Pacific”, p.97, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

“Human beings don't show, any more than cities at dusk, their real necessities! And yet if you looked -- past the circle of outside lights, through the street walls still standing -- into the want and emptiness within!”

Source : Phyllis Bottome (1998). “Old Wine: A Novel”, p.221, Northwestern University Press

“Men," said Mr. Kyle, "people have been trying to understand dogs ever since the beginning of time. One never knows what they'll do. You can read every day where a dog saved the life of a drowning child, or lay down his life for his master. Some people call this loyalty. I don't. I may be wrong, but I call it love--the deepest kind of love.”

Source : Wilson Rawls (2011). “Where the Red Fern Grows”, p.214, Laurel Leaf

“It's called Seflish, which is fitting”