Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy against the cultivation of his talent.

Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.

I can't believe what you say, because I see what you do.

Fires can't be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks.

Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.

The place in which I'll fit will not exist until I make it.

Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.

If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons.

You have to decide who you are and force the world to deal with you, not with its idea of you.

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.

The American idea of racial progress is measured by how fast I become white.

Adventure is not outside man

Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as children.

Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys of sense, Lie in three words,-health, peace, and competence.

Can those entrusted with the gravest authority set any example save that of the sternest obedience to the law?

There is a grace and an ease to power. You feel good about yourself and your life when you have it. It is well worth having, and it is certainly miserable not to have it.

If you must hate a man for the many things about which you disagree, remember that you should also love him for the many things about which you agree.

Raymond Chandler once wrote that Dashiell Hammett gave murder back to the people who really committed it.

Few people do business well, who do nothing else.

Your thoughts are like the seeds you plant in your garden. Your beliefs are like the soil in which you plant these seeds.

Chess makes man wiser and clear-sighted.