You cannot be firmly certain about anything. You can only have enough courage and strength to do what you consider to be right. Maybe it turns out that was wrong, but still you would have done his, and it is most important.

Story writers say that love is concerned only with young people, and the excitement and glamour of romance end at the altar. How blind they are. The best romance is inside marriage; the finest love stories come after the wedding, not before.

There is no thrill of mortal danger to surpass that of a lone man trying to create something that never existed before.

His mind was like a soup dish, wide and shallow; it could hold a small amount of nearly anything, but the slightest jarring spilled the soup into somebody's lap

Life's not so bad after all. There are not only poison but also antidotes.

Do not call yourself old. A man is as old as the creative force within him.

To be an artist is first to be a manual laborer.