Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life.

You wouldn’t have won if we’d beaten you.

The field of combat was a long, narrow, green-baize covered table. The weapons were words.

The toughest thing about success is that you’ve got to keep on being a success.

Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

The man who has done his level best… is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.

I gave it my body and mind, but I have kept my soul.

A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet. So he begins every line with a capital letter, and keeps on writing prose.

One should never criticize his own work except in a fresh and hopeful mood. The self-criticism of a tired mind is suicide.

The biblical account of Noah’s Ark and the Flood is perhaps the most implausible story for fundamentalists to defend. Where, for example, while loading his ark, did Noah find penguins and polar bears in Palestine?