Don't wait the time is never just right.

Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work.

People are much more willing to lend you books than bookcases.

It makes one hope and believe that a day will come when, in the eye of the law, literary property will be as sacred as whiskey, or any other of the necessaries of life. It grieves me to think how far more profound and reverent a respect the law would have for literature if a body could only get drunk on it.

It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

Buy land, they're not making it anymore.

Half of the results of a good intentions are evil; half the results of an evil intention are good.