It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted.
Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.
I'd never looked down the barrel of a gun before, but everything you've heard about the experience is true.
Keep cool and you command everybody.
Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.