“I do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to do to get rich.”

I am writing for myself and strangers. This is the only way that I can do it.

Anyone who marries three girls from St Louis hasn’t learned much.

You have to learn to do everything, even to die.

Art isn’t everything. It’s just about everything.

Art is the pulse of a nation.

It is always a mistake to be plain-spoken.

The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.

I wish that I was where I am.

Money is always there but the pockets change; it is not in the same pockets after a change, and that is all there is to say about money.

For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.

I like a thing simple but it must be simple through complication. Everything must come into your scheme, otherwise you cannot achieve real simplicity.

One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.

Nothing is more interesting than that something that you eat.

Forensics is eloquence and reduction.

You are brilliant and subtle if you come from Iowa and really strange and you live as you live and you are always very well taken care of if you come from Iowa.

I am I because my little dog knows me.

I can’t love you as you have been or will be. I can only love you as you are.

Are you willing to increase the amount of time every day that you feel good inside?

Everything that happens is God’s will. When you realize that, you’re home free.

Are you willing to take the Big Leap to your ultimate level of success in love, money, and creative contribution?

Successful people are willing to do what makes them uncomfortable in the interest of growth.

I could be a ninja, I could be a pirate or I could be in a play y’know.

If your friends won’t tell you the truth, who will?

For things remain possible, even if God does not choose them. Indeed, even if God does not will something to exist, it is possible for it to exist, since, by its nature, it could exist if God were to will it to exist.