Your attitude is everything. Believe in yourself and trust your material. To be a successful writer, write every single day where you feel like it or not. Never, never give up, and the world will reward you beyond your wildest dreams.

Every time an old person dies, it's like a library burning down.

The main thing you got to remember is that everything in the world is a hustle.

In my writing, as much as I could, I tried to find the good, and praise it.

Indeed optimists rather than defeatists have produced the results for which serious genealogical research is best known.

You can never enslave somebody who knows who he is.

Every death is like the burning of a library.