A novelist who writes nothing for 10 years finds his reputation rising. Because I keep on producing books they say there must be something wrong with this fellow.

Instinct and law demanded of him obedience. But growth demanded disobedience. His mother and fear impelled him to keep away from the white wall. Growth is life, and life is for ever destined to make for light. So there was no damming up the tide of life that was rising within him – rising with every mouthful of meat he swallowed, with every breath he drew. In the end, one day, fear and obedience were swept away by the rush of life, and the cub straddled and sprawled toward the entrance.

Keep your nose out the sky, keep your heart to god, and keep your face to the rising sun.

You cannot undermine police authority and then complain about rising crime

For me, if I get up and don’t meditate and don’t eat something before having caffeine, I go from 0 to 10 on the stress scale.

We must hold to a rigid accountability those public servants who show unfaithfulness to the interests of the nation or inability to rise to the high level of the new demands upon our strength and our resources.

It was the beginning of June; summer was arising out of spring, like an aloe from a field of grass.

Success is not the absence of failure, but the ability to bounce back from it.

There’s nothing more exciting than a comeback—seeing someone with dreams, watching them fail, and then getting a second chance.

An early-rising man is a good spouse but a bad husband.

You must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame; how could you rise anew if you have not first become ashes?

Keep going, someone must be on top, why not you?

the return of the Sun after a total eclipse, the rising of the Sun in the morning after its troublesome absence at night were noted by people around the world; these phenomena spoke to our ancestors of the possibility of surviving death. Up there in the skies was also a metaphor of immortality.

Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn’t learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn’t learn a little, at least we didn’t get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn’t die; so, let us all be thankful.

The scent of wine rising
from my grave will be so strong
that it will intoxicate passers-by.
There will be such an atmosphere of serenity
that couples in love will find it impossible
to tear themselves away.