The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.

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.

I never even dreamt of being a writer because I didn't feel allowed. When I was a child I was terribly ambitious, but I didn't know at all what this great thing would become.

I still encourage anyone who feels at all compelled to write to do so. I just try to warn people who hope to get published that publication is not all it is cracked up to be. But writing is.

I swear to you, sirs, that excessive consciousness is a disease--a genuine, absolute disease.

Satan's greatest success is in making people think they have plenty of time before they die to consider their eternal welfare.

I'm very much in denial that I can't dance. I really go for it, which is almost more embarrassing.

The Disney deal created some wrinkles. I'm under contract. But I'm on standby.

The worst nightmare I ever had about Vietnam was that I had to go back. I woke up in a sweat, in total terror.

This freedom, this liberty, this beautiful and terrible thing, needful to man as air, usable as earth.

Using words to describe magic is like using a screwdriver to cut roast beef.

It just wasn't right the way they were behind by 25 points and then they're told to hold the ball.