Success is 10% inspiration and 90% perspiration.

I detest life-insurance agents: they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so.

Chess is one long regret.

Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.

Writing is no trouble: you just jot down ideas as they occur to you. The jotting is simplicity itself - it is the occurring which is difficult.

A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better.

I admit that when the facts are not good enough, I always exaggerate them.