For a man with an education the world is a wide place and the opportunities are many

There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning.

... we must read, not only for what we read but for what it makes us think.

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!

The one law that does not change is that everything changes, and the hardship I was bearing today was only a breath away from the pleasures I would have tomorrow, and those pleasures would be all the richer because of the memories of this I was enduring.

One learns to adapt to the land in which one lives.

If you want the law to leave you alone, keep your hair trimmed and your boots shined.