It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
Turn the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.
Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.
Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
See things as they are and write about them. Don?t waste your creative energy trying to make things up. Even if you are writing fiction, write the things you see and know.
My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.
Well done is better than well said.