"The man who gives up accomplishes nothing and is only a hindrance. The man who does not give up can move mountains."

"I've never found anybody that I could work with as quickly as myself, or with less argument."

"We will make them think it's their idea. That's how all great leaders fool people."

"It's never too late, in fiction or in life, to revise."

"Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, intelligent direction and skillful execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives."

"Never reason from what you do not know. If you do, you will soon believe what is utterly against reason."

"All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling."

"People often write me and ask how I keep my wood floors so clean when I live with a child and a dog, and my answer is that I use a technique called Suffering From a Mental Illness."

"Life is a disease; and the only diference between one another is the stage of the disease at which he lives."

"Fleas can be taught nearly anything a congressman can."

"To do anything in this world worth doing, we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in, and scramble through as well as we can."

"A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold."