The great pleasure of life is doing for pleasure things I do not like to do.
Go ahead and do the impossible. It's worth the look on the faces of those who said you couldn't.
I'm not the kind of writer who's able to block out the world around me. I'm mindful of our own haves and have-nots, how our culture often blames and punishes the have-nots. I worry about our precarious economic and political climate.
Nothing is more unpleasant than a virtuous person with a mean mind.
Money is economic power.
It is often said that men are ruled by their imaginations; but it would be truer to say they are governed by the weakness of their imaginations.