“Out of all this struggle a good thing is going to grow. That makes it worthwhile.”

The great companies did not know that the line between hunger and anger is a thin line.

The final weapon is the brain, all else is supplemental.

I believe a strong woman may be stronger than a man, particularly if she happens to have love in her heart. I guess a loving woman is indestructible.

Don’t worry about losing. If it is right, it happens – The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away.

Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.

You can only understand people if you feel them in yourself.

Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids.

Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.

I like a lot of talk in a book and I don’t like to have nobody tell me what the guy that’s talking looks like. I want to figure out what he looks like from the way he talks.

I am happy to report that in the war between reality and romance, reality is not the stronger.

Maybe the hardest thing in writing is simply to tell the truth about things as we see them.

It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.

An answer is invariably the parent of a whole family of new questions.

You know how advice is. You only want it if it agrees with what you wanted to do anyway.

Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.

Books are the best friends you can have; they inform you, and entertain you, and they don’t talk back.

Age gives you an excuse for not being very good at things that you were not very good at when you were young.

Friends. They aren’t any such thing as good friend or bad friend. Maybe there are just friend.

One best book is equal to hundred good friends but one good friend is equal to a library.

The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.

Rewards for good service should not be deferred a single day.

Every day above earth is a good day.

When each day is the same as the next, it’s because people fail to recognize the good things that happen in their lives every day that the sun rises.

I get nervous when I don’t get nervous. If I’m nervous I know I’m going to have a good show.