Worry is a waste of emotional reserve".

The best, most natural dialogue is usually written as if the writer is listening to dictation. You might get stuck on any particular point and have to question yourself; but normally, dialogue writes itself.

Do you know the hallmark of the second-rater? It's resentment of another man's achievement.

A culture is made — or destroyed — by its articulate voices.

There is nothing wrong in helping other people, if and when they are worthy of the help and you can afford to help them.

"Mediocrity" doesn't mean average intelligence, it means an average intelligence that resents and envies its betters.

If you saw Atlas, the giant who holds the world on his shoulders, if you saw that he stood, blood running down his chest, his knees buckling, his arms trembling but still trying to hold the world aloft with the last of his strength, and the greater his effort the heavier the world bore down upon his shoulders - What would you tell him?" I…don't know. What…could he do? What would you tell him?" To shrug.