One good thing about being young is that you are not experienced enough to know you cannot possibly do the things you are doing.

The bridges that you cross before you come to them are over rivers that aren't there.

Accept good advice gracefully - as long as it doesn't interfere with what you intended to do in the first place.

If there were any justice in this world, people would occasionally be permitted to fly over pigeons.

The toughest thing about raising kids is convincing them that you have seniority.

The annoying thing about being modest is that you can't brag about it.

The really tough thing about humility is you can't brag about it.

Foolproof systems to not take into account the ingenuity of fools.

One good thing about being young is that you're not experienced enough to know what can't be done.

The trouble with making intelligent suggestions is that you're apt to be appointed to carry them out.

The key to getting ahead is setting aside 8 hours a day for work and 8 hours a day for sleep - and making sure they're not the same hours.

The only friends I have are the dead who have bequeathed their writings to me--I have no others.

A little distraction often helps you come back with sharper focus.

Whatever little we have gained we have gained by agitation while we have uniformly lost by moderation.

I long ago suggested the hypothesis, that in the basin of the Thames there are indications of a meeting in the Pleistocene period of a northern and southern fauna.

I knew that the deepest of tragedies was simple: to love, and not to be loved in return.

Our opinion of others is not so variable as our opinion of ourselves.

Call on literary convention, and it will gladly tell your story for you.

Nothing worth knowing can be taught.

Your business as a writer is not to illustrate virtue but to show how a fellow may move toward it or away from it.

What dangers you run, O noble souls! Often, you give your heart, but we take only your body. Your heart is left to you and you look at it in the shadows and shudder.