A man can learn a lot if he listens, and if I didn't learn anything else I was learning how much I didn't know.

To exist is to adapt, and if one could not adapt, one died and made room for those who could.

Ancestry is most important to those who have done nothing themselves.

A television picture or a movie might be lost forever, but your book is waiting.

Victory is not won in miles but in inches.

It is better to fear a little. One is cautious then.

I really learned how to write from Robert Louis Stevenson, Anthony Trollope, and de Maupassant.