Popular Quotes

To be loved is very demoralizing.

To be matter-of-fact about the world is to blunder into fantasy - and dull fantasy at that, as the real world is strange and wonderful.

To be meek, patient, tactful, modest, honorable, brave, is not to be either manly or womanly; it is to be humane.

To be memorable and to have dramatic impact, informational detail must function actively within the dynamic of a story.

To be misunderstood can be the writer's punishment for having disturbed the reader's peace. The greater the disturbance, the greater the possibility of misunderstanding.

To be more involved and more aware is appealing to me.

To be No. 1 on the 'New York Times' best-seller list, well, that's alarming. Having been a stand-up comedian, I think it's surprising to a lot of people that I had the insight I had.

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else - means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.

To be number one, you must train like you are number two.

To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread.