Human beings are the only creatures who blush - or who need to.

It is a good thing to write for the amusement of the public, but it is a far higher and nobler thing to write for their instruction, their profit, their actual and tangible benefit.

Reality can be beaten with enough imagination.

We are called the nation of inventors. And we are. We could still claim that title and wear its loftiest honors if we had stopped with the first thing we ever invented, which was human liberty.

Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.

I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.

Focus more on your desire than on your doubt, and the dream will take care of itself.