For every time we regret keeping still, there are about ten times we regret speaking up.

Whether a character in your novel is full of choler, bile, phlegm, blood or plain old buffalo chips, the fire of life is in there, too, as long as that character lives.

Probably the most honest "self-made person" ever was the one we heard say: "I got to the top the hard way - fighting my own laziness and ignorance every step of the way."

Aphorism, n.: A concise, clever statement you don’t think of until too late.

We pick bygone time up by the handfuls and, like clay, see if it feels right and then form it into stories about the past.

Too often we seek justice for just us.

you come to understand that history might be, as Thomas Carlyle put it, “a distillation of rumor, ” or, as Napoleon said, “a set of lies generally agreed upon

Children aren't everything. There are other things in the world, thought I admit some people don't seem to suspect it.

Who ever felt canary yellow and light blue are a suitable color should be tarred and feathered.

Dying was never as hard as having to live again.

In the moment of our creation we receive the stamp of our individuality; and much of life is spent in rubbing off or defacing the impression.

Honolulu is a melting pot.

Social intercourse -- a very limited thing in a half civilized country, becomes in our centers of civilization a great power. . .

Such a system would be very, very expensive and laborious to have, given the kinds of border we have. Scientists and engineers aren't even sure they have the technology to make it work

Man is my brother, and I am nearer related to him through his vices than I am through his virtue.

Joy is a weapon we use to fight life's battles.

It is easier to brave and threaten, than to conquer an enemy.