I never figured it was a cowardly thing to be scared. It's to be scared and still face up to what scares you that matters.

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

A wise man fights to win, but he is twice a fool who has no plan for possible defeat.

I wonder why it is the man who pleads for mercy never gives it.

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!

Nobody got anywhere in this world by simply being content.

. . . What do you wish to be? What would you like to become?” I did not know, and I told her so, but the question worried me. Should I know? “There is time,” she said, “but the sooner you know, the sooner you can plan. To have a goal is the important thing, and to work toward it. Then, if you decide you wish to do something different, you will at least have been moving, you will have been going somewhere, you will have been learning.