The only reason for being a professional writer is that you can't help it.

I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong.

Why did God give me two ears and one mouth? So that I will hear more and talk less.

I cannot believe that the purpose of life is to be happy. I think the purpose of life is to be useful, to be responsible, to be compassionate. It is, above all to matter, to count, to stand for something, to have made some difference that you lived at all.

The fellow who laughs last may laugh best, but he gets the reputation of being very slow-witted.

The only reason for being a professional writer is that you can't help it.

The hardest part of growing up is learning how to wait