There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
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.
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.
It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.
...happiness gives us the energy which is the basis of health.
To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you like everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight and never stop fighting.
America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.