"To be laughed at draws more profitable attention than being smiled at"
- Agona Apell
"Fortune draws her breath through cracks that make coarse the route on which we march to success"
"You lose nothing if by losing a friend you win countless admirers"
"It is through aversion to hardship that great ideas are born, but it is only through acceptance of it that these ideas can be implemented"
"The choice is ours to make whether the stars in the night sky shine upon us as headlights of an approaching paradise or as tail-lights of receding fortunes"
"Success dwells in a neighbourhood that can only be explored through failure, and it is through perfect knowledge of that neighbourhood that we gain perfect knowledge of her address"
"The experience of the expert is an advantage to them only for as long as it enables them to learn faster than the novice"
"The fortune that you feel you don't deserve is heaven's compensation for the misfortunes she feels you didn't deserve"
"There are three houses that the ultimate adult must leave: their parents' house, their employer's house, and their teacher's house. So they must someday found their own home, their own business, and t..."
"Depending on someone to make for you money is quite like depending on them to make for you a baby: they will own the money just as they will own the baby"