The Gods only go with you if you put yourself in their path. And that takes courage.

Thinking and planning is one side of life; doing is another. A man cannot be
doing all the time.

My wife is a lovely leathery green, the blue-tongued lizard said;
Her eyes are as red as bulldog ants, lurking in holes in her head;
Her body is made of the speckled grass, a violet grows on her tongue,
And I could watch her for fifty years if nobody blundered along.

The essence of wisdom is to know when to be doing, and when it's useless even to try

I will write until I can write no more. Then, I will write less.

He who looks in the crystal ball ends up eating glass... They're way, way close.