William Golding — English Novelist born on September 19, 1911, died on June 19, 1993

Sir William Gerald Golding CBE was an English novelist, playwright, and poet. Best known for his novel Lord of the Flies, he won a Nobel Prize in Literature, and was also awarded the Booker Prize for literature in 1980 for his novel Rites of Passage, the first book in what became his sea trilogy, To the Ends of the Earth... (wikipedia)

The journey of life is like a man riding a bicycle. We know he got on the bicycle and started to move. We know that at some point he will stop and get off. We know that if he stops moving and does not get off he will fall off.
He who rides the sea of the Nile must have sails woven of patience.
My yesterdays walk with me. They keep step, they are gray faces that peer over my shoulder.
Childhood is a disease - a sickness that you grow out of.
What a man does defiles him, not what is done by others.