The difference between fiction and nonfiction is that fiction must be absolutely believable.

I was in one of the most grand attitudes I ever struck, with my arm stretched up pointing to the sun. It was a noble effect. You could see the shudder sweep the mass like a wave.

Synergy - the bonus that is achieved when things work together harmoniously.

How easy it is to make people believe a lie, and [how] hard it is to undo that work again!

December is the toughest month of the year. Others are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June, October, August, and February.

Some of us cannot be optimists, but all of us can be bigamists

The only very marked difference between the average civilized man and the average savage is that the one is gilded and the other is painted.