"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work."

"Faith, as well intentioned as it may be, must be built on facts, not fiction--faith in fiction is a damnable false hope."

"Hell, there are no rules here--we're trying to accomplish something."

"Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits."

"There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of thinking."

"Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration."

"Good poetry seems too simple and natural a thing that when we meet it we wonder that all men are not always poets. Poetry is nothing but healthy speech."

"Is not the whole world a vast house of assignation to which the filing system has been lost?"

"Time is what prevents everything from happening at once."

"For every problem there is a solution which is simple, clean and wrong."

"It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances."

"She looked as though butter wouldn't melt in her mouth ... or anywhere else."