Good intentions have been the ruin of the world. The only people who have achieved anything have been those who have had no intentions at all.

A publisher is simply a useful middle-man.

Life would be dull without them.

One's dreams must be big enough so as not to lose sight of them.

The only way to get rid of tempation is to yeild to it.

To exercise power costs effort and demands courage. That is why so many fail to assert rights to which they are perfectly entitled - because a right is a kind of power but they are too lazy or too cowardly to exercise it. The virtues which cloak these faults are called patience and forbearance.

It's the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.