Stephen Leacock

I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.

The classics are only primitive literature. They belong to the same class as primitive machinery and primitive music and primitive medicine.

Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.

It took me realizing that a broken heart has never actually killed anyone to find the courage to ask for what I want, in just about every situation. That was part of my own growing up.

Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.

A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault.