It's hard to convince a winner that he's losing.

Aces are larger than life and greater than mountains.

If you speak the truth, you spoil the game.

Every conscious act requires risk. Every conscious act requires decision. Put these two facts together and you realize that the secret to life is not to avoid gambling but to gamble well.

You win some, you lose some, and you keep it to yourself.

As long as people allow themselves to be shocked, outraged or disgusted, there will be those who see that this happens, just so they can watch.

Don't leave it to the law of averages to make you break even.

I am a lucky player; a powerful winning force surrounds me.

In the beginning, everything was even money.

False hope is sometimes much worse and sometimes much better than no hope.

I've seen the future, and I survived the test of time.

Freedom comes from focus, focus brings freedom. Focus on fear you will always be in prison, focus on faith and is nothing the world can keep you knocked down.

Delayed gratification is a major virtue that is missing from our society.

The reasons that drive me to write are many and the most important are the most secret, I think. Perhaps most of all this: to put something out of death's reach.

Sweet breathing Zephyrus did softly play, A gentle spirit, that lightly did delay Hot Titan's beams, which then did glister fair

...rapid motion through space elates one.

Your mother and I do not approve of drinking. Have you not heard of the Eighteenth Amendment?” “Prohibition? I drink to its health whenever I can.

What we suffer, what we endure, what we muff, what we kill, what we miss, what we are guilty of, is done by us, as individuals, in private.

If I'm having a bad day in rehearsal, I'll sleep with my script.

The most improbable tales can be made believable, if your reader, through his sense, feels certain that he stands at the middle of events.

Appear at points which the enemy must hasten to defend; march swiftly to places where you are not expected.