I'm blessed and I thank God for every day for everything that happens for me.
The sincerity of feeling that is possible between a writer and a reader is one of the finest things I know.
Success is never so interesting as struggle
There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.
Some things are best learned in calm, others in storm.
Elsewhere the sky is the roof of the world; but here the earth was the floor of the sky.
When kindness has left people, even for a few moments, we become afraid of them as if their reason had left them. When it has left a place where we have always found it, it is like shipwreck; we drop from security into something malevolent and bottomless.
All treaties between great states cease to be binding when they come in conflict with the struggle for existence.
Well, when you're trying to create things that are new, you have to be prepared to be on the edge of risk.
There is no more terrible fate for a comedian than to be taken seriously.
An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, a power to destroy; because there is a limit beyond which no institution and no property can bear taxation.