To hell with luck. I'll bring the luck with me.

No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.

We have come out of the time when obedience, the acceptance of discipline, intelligent courage and resolution were most important, into that more difficult time when it is a man's duty to understand his world rather than simply fight for it.

Until you're grown-up they send you to reform school. After you're grown-up they send you to the penitentiary.

I love thee and thou art so lovely and so wonderful and so beautiful and it does such things to me to be with thee that I feel as though I wanted to die when I am loving thee.

I decided that I would write one story about each thing that I knew about.

A cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelings, but a cat does not.