One cannot lay a foundation by scattering stones, nor is a reputation for good work to be got by strewing volumes about the world.

All change is not growth as all movement is not forward.

All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.

A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or financial independence after the chief reason for which we sought it has passed away.

What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens.

It is lovely, when I forget all birthdays, including my own, to find that somebody remembers me.

It is human nature to overestimate the thing you've never had.

The worst thing about war is that so many people enjoy it.

The older I grow the more earnestly I feel that the few joys of childhood are the best that life has to give.

I have little faith in the theory that organized killing is the best prelude to peace.

The only difference between a rut and a grave are the dimensions.

It is impossible to be both selfish and happy

You have to pay for this view (onto which he looks while writing), so our expenses keep us pretty motivated to write. It's a vicious cycle.

I had no specific bent toward science until my grandfather died of stomach cancer. I decided that nobody should suffer that much.

We have no political prisons. We have political internal exiles.

Yeah, I think that's sort of the American way. And it's also the Polish way, it turns out.

Many a husband lives to regret the extravagant fee he bestowed upon the minister who sentenced him.

Life is like college; may I graduate and earn some honors.

Always search for your innermost nature in those you are with, as rose oil imbibes from roses.

A story should be managed so that it should suggest interesting things to the reader instead of the author's doing all the thinking for him, and setting it before him in black and white.

The errors of former times are recorded for our instruction in order that we may avoid their repition.