Man's maturity: to have regained the seriousness that he had as a child at play.
I am bound to furnish my antagonists with arguments, but not with comprehension.
One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.
We make our own fortune and call it destiny.
The palace is not safe when the cottage is not happy.
When I want to read a novel, I write one.
Fear makes us feel our humanity.
The hero and the coward both feel the same thing, but the hero uses his fear, projects it onto his opponent, while the coward runs. It's the same thing, fear, but it's what you do with it that matters.
Truth for anyone is a very complex thing. For a writer, what you leave out says as much as those things you include. What lies beyond the margin of the text? The photographer frames the shot; writers frame their world.
We earn what we get - most of us - and, sweet heaven help us! we get it. God does not always pay on Saturday - but He Pays.
The songwriting has never really stepped forward from the '50's.