Do what you like, but like what you do.

Writing ... it begins as an amusement, then it becomes a mistress, then a master, and finally a tyrant.

One must regard the hyphen as a blemish to be avoided wherever possible.

I don't like standing near the edge of a platform when an express train is passing through. I like to stand right back and if possible get a pillar between me and the train. I don't like to stand by the side of a ship and look down into the water. A second's action would end everything. A few drops of desperation.

It is of no account; after all, the old bird does not fly far from his nest.

We shall go forward together. The road upwards is stony. There are upon our journey dark and dangerous valleys through which we have to make and fight our way. But it is sure and certain that if we persevere - and we shall persevere - we shall come through these dark and dangerous valleys into a sunlight broader and more genial and more lasting than mankind has ever known.

In war it does not matter who is right, but who is left.