I fear there will be no future for those who do not change.

After a few days, I mused, I would have no trouble. Whoever heard of a revolution of fat men?

It is an old custom of these people to pick up a stone and toss it on the pile. Perhaps it is a symbolical lightening of the load they carry, perhaps a small offering to the gods of the trails.

Victory is won not in miles but in inches. Win a little now, hold your ground, and later, win a little more.

Few of us ever live in the present. We are forever anticipating what is to come or remembering what has gone.

Actors, politicians, and writers-all of us are but creatures of the hour. Long-lasting fame comes to but few.

One day I was speeding along at the typewriter, and my daughter - who was a child at the time - asked me, "Daddy, why are you writing so fast?" And I replied, "Because I want to see how the story turns out!