Character is the real foundation of all worthwhile success.

But what is unjust? That depends on a person's thoughts, values, and beliefs. People differ sharply on what is just or unjust in this world. Thus, some people become angry much quicker than others.

A short story is a writer's way of thinking through experience... Journalism aims at accuracy, but fiction's aim is truth. The writer distorts reality in the interest of a larger truth.

Most of us regard good luck as our right, and bad luck as a betrayal of that right.

Cease being intimidated by the argument that a right action is impossible because it does not yield maximum profits, or that a wrong action is to be condoned because it pays.

I always need your strength,Alec

In our democracy every young person should have an equal opportunity to obtain a higher education, regardless of his station in life or financial means.

Every writer creates his own precursors. His work modifies our conception of the past, as it will modify the future.

The ideal mother, like the ideal marriage, is a fiction.

To many moderns, [love] is something that is only a part of us rather than something of which we are a part.

Life is but a moment, death also is but another.