To each there comes in their lifetime a special moment when they are figuratively tapped on the shoulder and offered the chance to do a very special thing, unique to them and fitted to their talents. What a tragedy if that moment finds them unprepared or unqualified for that which could have been their finest hour.
We are all worms, But I do believe that I am a glow worm.
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
Writing a long and substantial book is like having a friend and companion at your side, to whom you can always turn for comfort and amusement, and whose society becomes more attractive as a new and widening field of interest is lighted in the mind.
A joke is a very serious thing.
My tastes are simple: I am easily satisfied with the best.
You will make all kinds of mistakes; but as long as you are generous and true and also fierce you cannot hurt the world or even seriously distress her. She was meant to be wooed and won by youth.
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
When you get a thing the way you want it, leave it alone.
An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.