A quotation in a speech, article or book is like a rifle in the hands of an infantryman. It speaks with authority.

At the innermost core of all loneliness is a deep and powerful yearning for union with one’s lost self.

If you accept your limitations you go beyond them.

Inspirations never go in for long engagements; they demand immediate marriage to action.

If you greatly desire something, have the guts to stake everything on obtaining it.

What an author likes to write most is his signature on the back of a cheque.

Other people’s interruptions of your work are relatively insignificant compared with the countless times you interrupt yourself

A man is already halfway in love with any woman who listens to him.

Many of our fears are tissuepaper-thin, and a single courageous step would carry us through them.

Men will always delight in a woman whose voice is lined with velvet.

No man can discover his own talents.

The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money costs less.

Ah, when to the heart of man was it ever less than a treason to go with the drift of things to yield with a grace to reason and bow and accept at the end...

I was the kind nobody thought could make it. I had a funny Boston accent. I couldn’t pronounce my R’s. I wasn’t a beauty.

The prospect of success in achieving our most cherished dream is not without its terrors. Who is more deprived and alone than the man who has achieved his dream?

Many of our fears are tissue-paper-thin, and a single courageous step would carry us clear through them.

No yesterdays are ever wasted for those who give themselves to today.

In the realm of thought every person performs innumerable abortions each minute of the waking day

If you have a talent, use it in every which way possible. Don’t hoard it. Don’t dole it out like a miser. Spend it lavishly like a millionaire intent on going broke.

Every man, through fear, mugs his aspirations a dozen times a day.