Golf is all about patience - one tournament is four days long, 18 holes a day.
The writer's secret is not inspiration - for it is never clear where it comes from - it is his stubbornness, his patience.
I have very positive memories of reading biographies of unusual Americans as a child.
Aside from sales, the letters from readers have been primarily positive.
Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.
Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.
My dear friend, clear your mind of cant.
It's not the situation, but whether we react negative or respond positive to the situation that is important.
Writing in certain environments carries with it an occupational risk.
In war the heroes always outnumber the soldiers ten to one.
The State thrives on war - unless, of course, it is defeated and crushed - expands on it, glories in it.
Chicago is an October sort of city even in spring.
Welcome home, Soldier of Furnace.
History repeats, but science reverberates.
Pantheism is sexed-up atheism. Deism is watered-down theism.
There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.
I may climb perhaps to no great heights, but I will climb alone.
The surest way to be alone is to get married.
The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.
I've spent my life alone in a room with a typewriter.
All men's misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone.
