An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.

Failure make people bitter and cruel. Success improves the character of the man.

Its a toss-up when you decide to leave the beaten track. Many are called, few are chosen.

No one can write a best seller by trying to. He must write with complete sincerity; the clichés that make you laugh, the hackneyed characters, the well-worn situations, the commonplace story that excites your derision, seem neither hackneyed, well worn nor commonplace to him. ... The conclusion is obvious: you cannot write anything that will convince unless you are yourself convinced. The best seller sells because he writes with his heart's blood.

It's asking a great deal that things should appeal to your reason as well as your sense of the aesthetic. - Of Human Bondage

It does the heart good to look at you.

I'd sooner be smashed into a mangled pulp by a bus when we cross the street than look forward to a life like yours.