Never thank anybody for anything, except a drink of water in the desert -and then make it brief.

Don't be dismayed by the opinions of editors, or critics. They are only the traffic cops of the arts.

A book is never finished; it's abandoned.

Everyone needs a warm personal enemy or two to keep him free from rust in the movable parts of his mind

News is history shot on the wing. The huntsmen from the Fourth Estate seek to bag only the peacock or the eagle of the swifting day.

Why may not the Bible and especially the New Testament be read and taught as a divine revelation in school? Where else can the purest principles of morality be learned so clearly or so perfectly as from the New Testament?

Perhaps no mightier conflict of mind occurs ever again in a lifetime than that first decision to unseat one's own tooth.