The way to succeed is never quit. Thats it. But really be humble about it.

We all suffer. If a man's wise, he learns from it.

Is this how you repay my goodness--with badness?” cried the boy. “Of course,” said the crocodile out of the corner of his mouth. “That is the way of the world.

I can't feel Irish to save my soul, but it's a fact.

You don't spend twenty years of your life in the service and not have a warm, nostalgic feeling left in you. It's a small service, and there's a lot of esprit de corps.

My parents were teachers and they went out of their way to see to it that I had books. We grew up in a home that was full of books. And so I learned to read. I loved to read.

That's what happens with writing. Ingredients bubble and cook. Material becomes substance.