A pessimist is a man who has been compelled to live with an optimist.

The finest friendships are between those who can do without each other.

Strength and strength's will are the supreme ethic. All else are dreams from hospital beds, the sly, crawling goodness of sneaking souls.

Every life is its own excuse for being, and to deny or refute the untrue things that are said of you is an error in judgment. All wrong recoils upon the doer, and the person who makes wrong statements about others is themselves to be pitied, not the person they vilify. It is better to be lied about than to lie. At the last no one can harm us but ourselves.

All success consists in this: You are doing something for somebody - benefiting humanity - and the feeling of success comes from the consciousness of this.

Writers seldom write the things they think. They simply write the things they think other folks think they think.

Self-discipline is the ability to make yourself do what you should do, when you should do it, whether you feel like it or not.