1. “Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun.”
2. “Ours is a world where people don’t know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it.”
3. “Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel a good as ever.”
4. “A hypocrite is a person who – but who isn’t?”
5. “If you make people think they’re thinking, they’ll love you; But if you really make them think, they’ll hate you.”
6. “If you want to get rich from writing, write he sort of thing that’s read by persons who move their lips when they’re reading to themselves.”
7. “Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.”
8. “The chief obstacle to the progress of human race is the human race.”
9. “A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists.”
10. “An idea isn’t responsible for the people who believe it.”
11. “An optimist is a man who has never had much experience.”
12. “The female of all species are most dangerous when they appear to retreat.”
13. “Publishing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.”
14. “It is better to be a part of beauty for one instant and then cease to exist forever and never be a part of beauty.”
15. “When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: ‘Whose?”
