28 quotes
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“There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.”
"Beauty is ever to the lonely mind a shadow fleeting; she is never plain. She is a visitor who leaves behind the gift of grief, the souvenir of pain."
on Philosophy
"The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking."
on Writing
"From now until the end of time no one else will ever see life with my eyes, and I mean to make the best of my chance."
on Life
"There is only one success — to be able to spend your life in your own way."
on Success
"There is only one success-to be able to spend life in your own way."
"There is only one success-to be able to spend your life in your own way."
"All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful: but the beauty is grim."
"When you sell a man a book you don’t sell him just 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue—you sell him a whole new life."
on Literature
"There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love."
on Love
"The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness."
on Courage
"Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water."
on Emotion
"When you sell a man a book you don't sell him just 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life."
"There is only one rule for being a good talker - learn to listen."
on Wisdom
"Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting."
on Inspirational
"There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning."
on Happiness
"We've had bad luck with our kids - they've all grown up."
on Humor
"My theology briefly Is that the universe Was dictated But not signed."
on Faith
"The unluckiest insolvent in the world is the man whose expenditure is too great for his income of ideas."
"Any man worth his salt has by the time he is forty-five accumulated a crown of thorns and the problem is to learn to wear it over one ear."
on Resilience
"The enemies of the future are always the very nicest people."