“There is no such thing as great writing – there is only great re-writing!”

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

A man can be destroyed but not defeated.

No one you love is ever truly lost.

Optimism can keep a fool from accepting failure.

A cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelings, but a cat does not.

Any man’s life, told truly, is a novel.

There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering; all the rest are merely games.

Work could cure almost anything.

No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.

The only thing that can ruin a good day is people.

Being against evil doesn’t make you good.

How little we know of what there is to know.

Night is always darker before the dawn and life is the same, the hard times will pass, every thing will get better and sun will shine brighter then ever.

We wait always for something that does not come.

Would you please please please please please please please stop talking?

Show the readers everything, tell them nothing.