Success is the child of audacity.

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.

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

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

Never complain and never explain.

Finality is not the language of politics.

Philosophers, for example, often fail to recognize that their remarks about the universe apply also to themselves and their remarks. If the universe is meaningless, so is the statement that it is so.

Gods have become like us, ergo, we have become like gods. And to you, my unknown planetary readers, we will come to you, to make your life as divinely rational and exact as ours.

We die unconsciously, we are born unconsciously and we live unconsciously as well

But most dragons seem to have interesting personalities--besides probably having quite good reasons for what they do, if only one could understand them

Hope is a great falsifier. Let good judgment keep her in check.

I'm tired of watching attractive people trying to be ugly, struggling for authenticity. Why not be yourself?

Bement was a very good teacher but he was a very poor painter. I guess he wasn't a painter at all. He had no courage and I believe that to create one's own world in any of the arts takes courage.

We Americans are a peculiar people. We are for the underdog, no matter how much of a dog he is.

It's pretty difficult to promote something the week after Christmas and the week before New Year's.

Certain flaws are necessary for the whole. It would seem strange if old friends lacked certain quirks.