"To each there comes in their lifetime a special moment when they are figuratively tapped on the shoulder and offered the chance to do a very special thing, unique to them and fitted to their talents. What a tragedy if that moment finds them unprepared or unqualified for that which could have been their finest hour."
"Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened."
"The price of greatness is responsibility."
"Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with it is a toy and an amusement. Then it becomes a mistress, then it becomes a master, then it becomes a tyrant. The last phase is that just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster and fling him to the public."
"The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is."
"When you get a thing the way you want it, leave it alone."