“There's a victory, and defeat the first and best of victories, the lowest and worst of defeats which each man gains or sustains at the hands not of another, but of himself.”

“O Death, rock me asleep, bring me to quiet rest, let pass my weary guiltless ghost out of my careful breast.”

“Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.”

“If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.”

“I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.”

“The best writing is not about the writer, the best writing is absolutely not about the writer, it's about us, it's about the reader.”