It's one thing for a man not to know, not to have learned; it's another not to be able to live by what one does know.

The purpose of freedom is to create it for others.

As long as a man stays alive he can't tell what chances will pop up next. But a dead man signs no checks.

... it's possible to let love fly by like a cloud in a windy sky if one is too timid, or perhaps unable to believe he is entitled to good fortune.

Reader, I am myself the subject of my book; you would be unreasonable to spend your leisure on so frivolous and so vain a matter.

Those who write about life, reflect about life. you see in others who you are.

Writing is a mode of being. If I write I live.