Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.

Author: Benjamin Disraeli

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An author who speaks about their own books is almost as bad as a mother who speaks about her own children.

There is no education like adversity.

The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation.

Like all great travellers I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.

You got to be careful if you don’t know where you’re going, because you might not get there.

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do.

Everything in the world is about sex, except sex. Sex is about power.