Browsing Topic Best Novelists Quotes

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.

Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.

There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.

Love has no age, no limit; and no death.

I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

If you are lonely when you’re alone, you are in bad company.

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.

Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.

We do not remember days, we remember moments.

Isn’t it funny how day by day nothing changes, but when you look back, everything is different.

Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.

Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching.

I don’t like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn’t of much value. Life hasn’t revealed its beauty to them.

Courage is grace under pressure.

You must be prepared to work always without applause.

The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.

A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.

There is only one success – to be able to spend your life in your own way.

Serenity comes from the ability to say Yes to existence. Courage comes from the ability to say No to the wrong choices made by others.

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.

In the depths of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.

Nothing you love is lost. Not really. Things, people—they always go away, sooner or later. You can’t hold them, any more than you can hold moonlight. But if they’ve touched you, if they’re inside you, then they’re still yours. The only things you ever really have are the ones you hold inside your heart.

Never take anything for granted.

Wherever I am, if I’ve got a book with me, I have a place I can go and be happy

If you want to be a psychological novelist and write about human beings, the best thing you can do is keep a pair of cats.

When one acts on pity against justice, it is the good whom one punishes for the sake of the evil; when one saves the guilty from suffering, it is the innocent whom one forces to suffer. There is no escape from justice, nothing can be unearned and unpaid for in the universe, neither in matter nor in spirit—and if the guilty do not pay, then the innocent have to pay it.

Essential characteristic of the really great novelist: a Christ-like, all-embracing compassion.

The man without a purpose is a man who drifts at the mercy of random feelings or unidentified urges and is capable of any evil, because he is totally out of control of his own life. In order to be in control of your life, you have to have a purpose-a productive purpose.

Get the hell out of my way!

You can forgive a fool because he only runs in one direction and doesn’t deceive anybody. It’s the deceivers who make you feel bad.