A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.
“What you're thinking is what you're becoming.”
“The man with no imagination has no wings.”
“The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.”
“Live everyday as if it were your last because someday you're going to be right.”
He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.
I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.
There must be such a thing as a child with average ability, but you can't find a parent who will admit that it is his child.
The ocean moans over dead men's bones.
The man who suspects his own tediousness is yet to be born.
A man is known by the company his mind keeps.
To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent - that is to triumph over old age.
No bird has ever uttered note that was not in some first bird's throat; since eden's freshness and man's fall no rose has been original.
Civilization is the lamb's skin in which barbarism masquerades.
They fail, and they alone, who have not striven.
“I am the penny whistle of American literature.”
“There is no way of being a creative writer in America without being a loser.”
“There's people in hell who want ice water.”
“Never sleep with someone whose troubles are worse than your own.”
Literature is made upon any occasion that a challenge is put to the legal apparatus by conscience in touch with humanity.
Loving Chicago is like loving a woman with a broken nose.
To literary critics a book is assumed to be guilty until it proves itself innocent.
Never lie down with a woman who's got more troubles than you.
Any writer who knows what he's doing isn't doing very much.