The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.
生活中唯一真正的失败是不忠于自己所知道的最好的东西。
I write fiction and I’m told it’s autobiography, I write autobiography and I’m told it’s fiction, so since I’m so dim and they’re so smart, let them decide what it is or it isn’t.
A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.
The best way to be happy is to be yourself.
Humility makes great men twice honourable.