God will never give you anything you can't handle, so don't stress.
The president of General Motors was in a foul humor.
When I began writing that I was able and did travel and met some fascinating people and also uncovered some history, which has not been discovered before.
I have been extraordinarily lucky. Anyone who pretends that some kind of luck isn't involved in his success is deluding himself.
Let us then remember the dead-and all wars-gratefully. And let us hope that because of them we may become a touch better, a thimbleful wiser, and a handshake more tolerant of this changing world they did not live to see.
Winners will be losers if they don't support the losers.
No man can really succeed if he doesn't move away from where he was born. I believe it is particularly true for the writer.
As a child I was a good boy. Even if I wasn't playing tennis I don't think I'd have done things like smoking or getting drunk. I'm lucky I never liked the taste of alcohol - I know, I'm Scottish so what's wrong with me? - but I never even liked the smell of the stuff. It's the same with smoking, it never appealed to me. I guess I missed out on my Kevin-The-Teenager phase.
Forget hydrogen, forget hydrogen, forget hydrogen.
The severity of penalties is only a vain resource, invented by little minds in order to substitute terror for that respect which they have no means of obtaining.
From the moment one sets up for an author, one must be treated as ceremoniously, that is as unfaithfully, "as a king's favorite or a king.