Perfecting and selling your writing is a lifelong task. If you are a persistent writer, you can expect your abilities to improve with time. Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.

Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.

Wealth, taste and leisure can bring many things but they do not bring happiness.

Watch your actions, they become your habits.

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

Lots of folks are forced to skimp to support a government that won't.

The game of life does not proceed like a mathematical calculation on the principle that two and two make four. Sometimes they make five, or minus four, and sometimes the blackboard topples over in the middle of the sum and the pedagogue is left with a black eye.