Learn to write when you would rather sleep. Learn to exercise this gift of language when no conscious portion of your wits can vibrate anything but worry. Learn to write so, my son, and you can call yourself a writer.

The way to happiness is a high-speed road to those who know where the edges are.

Happiness is the overcoming of not unknown obstacles toward a known goal.

The sudden and abrupt deletion of all individuals occupying the lower bands of the Tone Scale from the social order would result in an almost instant rise in the cultural tone and would interrupt the dwindling spiral into which any society may have entered.

The only way you can control people is to lie to them. You can write that down in your book in great big letters. The only way you can control anybody is to lie to them.

No man is happy without a goal, and no man can be happy without faith in his own ability to reach that goal.

Single men and determined groups have been the only makers of space in which man could walk free.