Ninety-nine percent talent…ninety-nine percent discipline…ninety-nine percent work. He must never be satisfied with what he does. It is never as good as it can be done. Always dream and shoot higher t...
I say money has no value; it's just the way you spend it.
I notice how it takes a lazy man, a man that hates moving, to get set on moving once he does get started off, the same as he was set on staying still, like it aint the moving he hates so much as the s...
Here I am I am tired I am tired of running of having to carry my life like it was a basket of eggs
A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you'd think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune
I believe that when the last ding-dong of doom has clanged and faded from the last worthless rock hanging tideless in the last red and dying evening, that even then there will still be one more sound:...
A hack writer who would not have been considered fourth rate in Europe."(on Mark Twain)
You can't beat women anyhow and that if you are wise or dislike trouble and uproar you don't even try to.
You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
Women do have an affinity for evil, for believing that no woman is to be trusted, but that some men are too innocent to protect themselves.
When I was a boy I first learned how much better water tastes when it has set a while in a cedar bucket. Warmish-cool, with a faint taste like the hot July wind in cedar trees smells. It has to set at...
We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
Surely heaven must have something of the color and shape of whatever village or hill or cottage of which the believer says, This is my own.
Sometimes I aint so sho who's got ere a right to say when a man is crazy and when he aint. Sometimes I think it aint none of us pure crazy and aint none of us pure sane until the balance of us talks h...
She loved him not only in spite of but because he himself was incapable of love.
On the instant when we come to realize that tragedy is second-hand.
Memory believes before knowing remembers.[Light in August]
Maybe nothing ever happens once and is finished. Maybe happen is never once but like ripples maybe on water after the pebble sinks, the ripples moving on, spreading, the pool attached by a narrow umbi...
I'd have wasted a lot of time and trouble before I learned that the best way to take all people, black or white, is to take them for what they think they are, then leave them alone.
I took out my watch and listened to it clicking away, not knowing it couldn't even lie