And then I tasted a sharp acid rising in my stomach. It is an acquired taste, the essence of fear.

The philosophic aim of education must be to get each one out of his isolated class and into the one humanity. Prudence and responsibility are not middle-class virtues but human virtues.

What you conquer in your youth is your trophy in adulthood.

I began by acting like the person I wanted to be, and eventually I became that person.

I've never considered myself to be naturally funny and it wasn't until I booked my first few jobs in Hollywood that I started thinking, "I guess I'm funny."

Good publishers – as one former publisher aptly put it – are market-makers in a world where it is attention, not content, that is scarce.

Fortune is like a coquette; if you don't run after her, she will run after you.

It is always better to make your own mistakes and not someone else's.

Those who love to be feared fear to be loved, and they themselves are more afraid than anyone, for whereas other men fear only them, they fear everyone.

Racing is life. Everything else is just waiting.

How have I never realized before that for all the strong, kind parts of him, there are also hurting, broken parts?