People who are busy and happy don't write diaries; they are too busy living.

Who is more real? Homer or Ulysses? Shakespeare or Hamlet? Burroughs or Tarzan?

The best things in history are accomplished by people who get tired of being shoved around.

Happiness lies in being privileged to work hard for long hours in doing whatever you think is worth doing. One man may find happiness in supporting a wife and children. Another may find it in robbing banks. Still another may labor mightily for years in pursuing pure research with no discernible result. Note the individual and subjective nature of each case. No two are alike and there is no reason to expect them to be. Each man or woman must find for himself or herself that occupation in which hard work and long hours make him or her happy.

How you behave toward cats here below determines your status in Heaven.

If you happen to be one of the fretful minority who can do creative work, never force an idea; you'll abort it if you do. Be patient and you'll give birth to it when the time is ripe. Learn to wait.

I never learned from a man who agreed with me.