for my own purpose, I defined the art of fiction as experience illuminated.

All change is not growth as all movement is not forward.

All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.

A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or financial independence after the chief reason for which we sought it has passed away.

What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens.

It is lovely, when I forget all birthdays, including my own, to find that somebody remembers me.

It is human nature to overestimate the thing you've never had.

The worst thing about war is that so many people enjoy it.

The older I grow the more earnestly I feel that the few joys of childhood are the best that life has to give.

I have little faith in the theory that organized killing is the best prelude to peace.

The only difference between a rut and a grave are the dimensions.

You're gonna have to hold on tight, because this rodeo is just getting started.

The excellence of a thing is related to its proper function.

Therefore, let me in honesty speak the truth about our epoch and people.

Damn inflation, full speed ahead,' Greenspan has said in both action and word. I think an investor should believe him and invest accordingly.

Flattery has a short battery life, but reminding people they are amazing and precious and wanted and works of art can truly change their lives.

Nobody I ever broke bread with, and I see players all the time, talked about using their head running the football.

You can't reason someone out of something that they weren't reasoned into in the first place.

Women prevent the threads of life from being broken. The finest minds have always understood the peacemaking role of women.

Look slowly and hard at something subtle and small.

More essential than working on attitudes and behaviors is examining the paradigms out of which those attitudes and behaviors flow.