I always find it more difficult to say the things I mean than the things I don't.

The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected.

It was such a lovely day I thought it a pity to get up.

The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you.

Throw yourself into the hurly-burly of life. It doesn't matter how many mistakes you make, what unhappiness you have to undergo. It is all your material ... Don't wait for experience to come to you; go out after experience. Experience is your material.

When he sacrifices himself man for a moment is greater than God, for how can God, infinite and omnipotent, sacrifice himself?

Let us develop the resources of our land, call forth its powers, build up its institutions, promote all its great interests, and see whether we also, in our day and generation, may not perform something worthy to be remembered.