The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation.

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.

...few young poets [are] testing their poems against the ear. They're writing for the page, and the page, let me tell you, is a cold bed.

You are certainly unique. Everyone is unique. Nobody has ever suffered quite like you before because nobody has ever been you before.

Socialists eat their children. The poets, artists, and radicals are murdered first once statists come into power. Statists abhor free thinking.

All nature's diff'rence keeps all nature's peace.

I'm not going to throw away the hand of friendship to suit 100 Trotskyites in Glasgow.

They knew in what they called their hearts that one can get on quite well without a mother, and that it is only the mothers who think you can't.

I'd gone through the ups and downs and curveballs that life throws at you. I found writing to be very therapeutic and it helped me with a lot of the stuff I was going through.

Washburn's an old American name, but this one was assembled overseas.

I have been on the phone 30 minutes with you and you haven't helped me solve this problem.

In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.