Success dwells in a neighborhood that can only be explored through failure, and it is through perfect knowledge of that neighborhood that we gain perfect knowledge of her address

— Agona Apell

The bold display of our unattractive parts is an effective substitute for beauty since it duplicates beauty's principal effects, namely the excitation of admiration, charm, and envy in the beholder, who is moved to wish that they too could carry their own defects with the same ease.

— Agona Apell

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

— Agona Apell

The eternal struggle between failure and fortune is a fight not between mortal enemies but sparring partners. So fortune is improved by failure, and the reverse is also true.

— Agona Apell

The experience of the expert is an advantage to them only for as long as it enables them to learn faster than the novice

— Agona Apell

The first act in the training of a warrior should be how to string his rifle and turn it into a guitar

— Agona Apell

The fortune that you feel you don't deserve is heaven's compensation for the misfortunes she feels you didn't deserve

— Agona Apell

The further from law you move, the closer to claw you come.

— Agona Apell

The highest form of worship is to answer God's prayer.

— Agona Apell

The law is not an ass but a chameleon in ass skin: it turns deathly black when around blacks and pristine white when around whites

— Agona Apell