“I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken - and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.”

“Silence is true wisdom's best reply.”

“Loving a child doesn't mean giving in to all his whims to love him is to bring out the best in him, to teach him to love what is difficult.”

“The best of artists has no conception that the marble alone does not contain within itself.”

“The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.”

“Everywhere I go, I'm asked if I think the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.”

“The best author will be the one who is ashamed to become a writer.”

“I already gave my best. I have no regrets at all.”

“I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.”