The world is like a board with holes in it and the square men have got into the round holes and the round into the square.

Westward the course of empire takes its way.

The World of Today, Few People have Everything while Many People have Nothing.

Challenge yourself today, to improve, for a better tomorrow than yesterday.

If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal.

Success is a miserable teacher. It tempts intelligent people to believe they cannot lose. And it is an unreliable guide to the future.

The way we love people we disagree with is the best evidence of what we really believe.

My teaching forces me to articulate what I think works in a piece of fiction and how I think it works. All of that gives me energy as a writer.

The noise resembles the roar of heavy, distant surf. Standing on the stirring ice one can imagine it is disturbed by the breathing and tossing of a mighty giant below.

Failure in life does not matter; the greatest misfortune is standing still.

Being a complete juvenile delinquent helped me grow up a little.

There is but one way of refusing To-morrow, that is to die.