One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.

The secret of success is constancy of purpose.

Cleanliness and order are not matters of instinct; they are matters of education, and like most great things, you must cultivate a taste for them.

Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

Never complain and never explain.

Finality is not the language of politics.

The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

It's none of your concern what others say or think about you. Your happiness is your own responsibility.

The Universe is difficult to comprehend because it is obvious.

It's better to live down a scandal than to ruin one's life.

Really interesting novels, they always are so demanding of you on some level that you don't fall asleep.

This pain to remain the same outweigh the pain to change... When you get tired enough is when you begin to want to sacrifice everything inside of you—the fear just leaves

Nobody can put a character on paper without - at any rate in part and at times - sitting as a model for it himself.

Movies are collective, cooperative endeavours, which I like a lot. But writing is all up to you, it's what's so scary; it's just you and that page. But I really like it a lot.

He who does not tire, tires adversity.

I wear a baseball cap all the time, which I would never normally wear, and I walk very fast.

War defined my entire childhood and youth and most of my adulthood too - and in the US, it continues to do so.