A writer's brain is like a magician's hat. If you're going to get anything out of it, you have to put something in it first.

No man ever raised a monument to a cynic or wrote a poem about a man without faith.

For one who reads, there is no limit to the number of lives that may be lived.

I am somebody. I am me. And I don't need anybody to make me somebody.

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

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

A parent or a teacher has only his lifetime; a good book can teach forever.