“It’s a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.”

It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.

An elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.

It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.

To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.

You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.

I’ve a grand memory for forgetting.

By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.

Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.

There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.

Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there that he changes the atmosphere and tenor of his life.

You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.

Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.

It is not likely that posterity will fall in love with us, but not impossible that it may respect or sympathize; so a man would rather leave behind him the portrait of his spirit than a portrait of his face.

If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.

It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

A friend is a gift you give yourself.

Apple is this great American company that could have only happened here.

I’ve led a career of having to take work to see my family, over picking and choosing, instead of ‘I need food on the table and I don’t know how I’m going to pay the mortgage.’

One of the easiest ways to be irresponsible about power is to forget you have it.

I wish I could get into other shows, but I just don’t have time!

Everybody doesn’t want to have to be a computer scientist to protect themselves. Most people have no desire to do that.

I have to face the fear. I have to take control of the situation and find a way to make it less frightening.

I don’t have time for the news clippings. I got my own mission.

It’s absolutely fatal to your writing to think about how your work will be received. It’s a betrayal of whatever talent you have.