Politics is the art of making civilization work.

Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on

The wind was cold off the mountains and I was a naked man with enemies behind me, and nothing before me but hope.

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

Today is all we have, tomorrow is a mirage that may never become reality.

If you're going to be a writer, the first essential is just to write. Do not wait for an idea. Start writing something and the ideas will come. You have to turn the faucet on before the water starts to flow.

It is not enough to do, one must also become. I wish to be wiser, stronger, better. This--" I held out my hands "--this thing that is me is incomplete. It is only the raw material with which I have to work. I want to make it better than I received it.