Few people can see genius in someone who has offended them.

To be apt in quotation is a splendid and dangerous gift. Splendid, because it ornaments a man's speech with other men's jewels; dangerous, for the same reason.

I think of the author as somebody who goes into the marketplace and puts down his rug and says, 'I will tell you a story' and then he passes the hat.

In the end, it is upon the quality and commitment of individuals that all group movements depend.

Nothing grows old-fashioned so fast as modernity.

Whether you are really right or not doesn't matter; it's the belief that counts.

Although I am almost illiterate mathematically, I grasped very early in life that any one who can count to ten can count upward indefinitely if he is fool enough to do so.