A book is the only true land of the free: within its borders, anything is possible

— Agona Apell

A rain forest springs from the droppings of animals and grows greater than any cultivated garden; likewise, a great mass of literary skill springs from the droppings of writers that cross our minds through the reading we do.

— Agona Apell

Asking someone to make for you money is like asking them to make for you a baby: they will own the money just as they will own the baby

— Agona Apell

A struggle is fatally injured not so much by the stumbles of its leaders as by their mumbles

— Agona Apell

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

— Agona Apell

Faith is not mere belief but is that state you attain when you send your will, words, thoughts, beliefs, and actions into orbit around a chosen goal

— Agona Apell

Fortune crowns the bold before the worthy

— Agona Apell

Fortune draws her breath through cracks that make coarse the route on which we march to success

— Agona Apell

Friends are won through personal contact, but admirers are won through their contact with our works

— Agona Apell

Gender equality remains meaningless until we consider it to mean that femininity and masculinity, when we consider the full scope of capabilities that they each afford humanity, are of equal value to society. Therefore, women who attempt to act out equality while suppressing their femininity do not prove equality but only the advantage of masculinity.

— Agona Apell