Can you honestly love a dishonest thing?

It's so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.

Any man of reasonable intelligence can make money if that's what he wants. Mostly it's women or clothes or admiration he really wants and they deflect him.

Like most modern people, I don't believe in prophecy or magic and then spend half my time practicing it.

Good God, what a mess of draggle-tail impulses a man is--and a woman too, I guess.

The words are meaningless except in terms of feeling. Does anyone act as the result of thought or does feeling stimulate action and sometimes thought implement it.

Are cats strange animals or do they so resemble us that we find them curious as we do monkeys?

War did not make a killer of me, although for a time I killed men.

In business and in politics a man must carve and maul his way through men to get to be King of the Mountain. Once there, he can be great and kind--but he must get there first.

Money does not change the sickness, only the symptoms.

A reputation for money is almost as negotiable as money itself.

Great acts are made up of small deeds.

Be a kind person. Yes, even to jerks. Let them be a jerk. You be a kind person.

The young have little use for the concept of rebirth, yet the older they get the more appealing the concept becomes.

If you yourself desire establishment, then help others to get establishment; if you yourself want success, then help others to attain success.

I have great faith in the future of books - no matter what form they may take - and of science fiction.

It is impossible to say how first the idea entered my brain, but, once conceived, it haunted me day and night.

What is grit? Grit is refusing to give up. It's persistence. It's making your own luck.

A correct answer is like an affectionate kiss, Goethe said; a correct answer, Gertrude would have said, is like a slap in the face.

Buddhism has a very beautiful teaching that says the worst thing you can do to your soul is to tell someone their faith is wrong.

If we all knew how to make that jump from good to great then I think every song would be great.