My main reason for adopting literature as a profession was that, as the author is never seen by his clients, he need not dress respectably.

Though the Life Force supplies us with its own purpose, it has no other brains to work with than those it has painfully and imperfectly evolved in our heads.

He said that private practice in medicine ought to be put down by law. When I asked him why, he said that private doctors were ignorant licensed murders.

Hollywood keeps before its child audiences a string of glorified young heroes, everyone of whom is an unhesitating and violent Anarchist. His one answer to everything that annoys him or disparages his country or his parents or his young lady or his personal code of manly conduct is to give the offender a "sock" in the jaw.... My observation leads me to believe that it is not the virtuous people who are good at socking jaws.

We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.

Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.

I can think of no other edifice constructed by man as altruistic as a lighthouse. They were built only to serve.