Writing is the only profession where nobody considers you ridiculous if you earn no money. Money is like an arm or a leg; use it or lose it.

Don't find fault, find a remedy.

Coming together is a beginning keeping together is progress working together is success.

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the aeroplane takes off against the wind, not with it.

Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.

If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.

Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.

Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.

Anything we are preaching to people is what they become

There's nothing happy about love at all!! I would rather have not known real love... if it hurts this much.

There's no ex out there who I'm not friends with today, and I'm extremely thankful for that.

I learned from my dad that change and experimentation are constants and important. You have to keep trying new things.

Manager solves problems, leader prevents them.

I think the novel is the American form because people read it in private, and the only valuable things that happen in America happen in private life, because public life is a dead loss.

In laboring to be concise, I become obscure. [Lat., Brevis esse laboro, obscurus fio.]

Patience cannot remove, but it can always dignify and alleviate, misfortune.

Like bookends, we have learned to support each other when the stuff in the middle pushes us apart.

If one looks at the map of the world, it's difficult to find Iraq, and one would think it rather easy to subdue such a small country.