A man is the origin of his action.

Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is.

We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.

It takes two years to learn to speak and sixty to learn to keep quiet.

It makes one feel rather good deciding not to be a bitch. . . .It’s sort of what we have instead of God.

If it is any use to know it, I always try to write on the principle of the iceberg. There is seven-eighths of it under water for every part that shows.

If something is wrong, fix it now. But train yourself not to worry, worry fixes nothing!