It is very important what not to do.
For God's sake give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself!
And this shall be for music when no one else is near, The fine song for singing, the rare song to hear! That only I remember, that only you admire, Of the broad road that stretches and the roadside fire.
I consider the success of my day based on the seeds I sow, not the harvest I reap.
Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.
The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.
There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.
America's great newspapers have staffs that range from 50 percent to 70 percent of what they were just a few years ago.
For they are the knights of summer, and winter is coming.
The latest refinements of science are linked with the cruelties of the Stone Age.
Songwriting is best. It's the hardest. . . finest. . . tightest. It also requires the most discipline.