Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.

Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.

Though children can accept adults as adults, adults can never accept children as anything but adults too.

There is no such thing as was - only is. If was existed, there would be no grief or sorrow.

When I was little there was a picture in one of our books, a dark place into which a single weak ray of light came slanting upon two faces lifted out of the shadow.

I don't want money badly enough to work for it.

The only rule I have is to quit while it’s still hot. Never write yourself out. Always quit when it’s going good. Then it’s easier to take it up again. If you exhaust yourself, then you’ll get into a dead spell and you’ll have trouble with it.