In order to pay it's got to be a pretty big winner. But if it's a big hit from a financial standpoint, then next year you've got a very tough comparison.

My forces are not enfeebled, I find no decay in my strength; my provisions are not cut off, I find no abhorring in mine appetite; my counsels are not corrupted nor infatuated, I find no false apprehensions to work upon mine understanding; and yet they see that invisibly, and I feel that insensibly, the disease prevails.

An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.

If we have confidence in our own beliefs, we should not fear freedom of thought.

By the time you're eighty years old you've learned everything. You only have to remember it.

If any writer thinks the world is full of middle class people of nice sensibilities, then he is out of his mind.

Live constructively and live optimistically.