"The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life."

"The past is not dead. In fact, it's not even past."

"Don't try to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself."

"All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible."

"The artist doesn't have time to listen to the critics. The ones who want to be writers read the reviews, the ones who want to write don't have the time to read reviews."

"The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it."

"Never tell a man you can read him through and through; most people prefer to be thought enigmas."

"Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content."

"War kills men, and men deplore the loss; but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants, and so saves societies."

"it is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."

"The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure."

"I would visualize things coming to me. It would just make me feel better. Visualization works if you work hard. That's the thing. You can't just visualize and go eat a sandwich."