When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.

My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.

Never confuse movement with action.

Do not ask for whom the bell tolls, it tolls for thee.

Live life to the fullest.

Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.

If two people love each other, there can be no happy end to it.

Courage is grace under pressure.

The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places.

For a true writer each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment. He should always try for something that has never been done or that others have tried and failed. Then sometimes, with great luck, he will succeed.

Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.

'The world is a fine place and worth fighting for.' I agree with the second part.

So far, about morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

Be fully in the moment,open yourself to the powerful energies dancing around you.

The only thing that can spoil a day is people and if you can keep from making engagements, every day has no limits.

But in modern war you will die like a dog for no good reason.

Real seriousness in regard to writing is one of two absolute necessities. The other, unfortunately, is talent.

An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

When writing a novel a writer should create living people people not characters. A character is a caricature.

Auto racing, bull fighting, and mountain climbing are the only real sports. . . all others are games.

'We're always lucky,' I said and like a fool I did not knock on wood.

In order to write about life, first you must live it!

Grace under Pressure.

Never mistake motion for action.

There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring.

The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong in the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.

Time is the least thing we have.

Only that which makes you feel bad after doing is immoral.

Let him think I am more man that I am and I will be so.

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.

But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.

If people bring so much courage to this world the world has to kill them to break them, so of course it kills them. The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.

Before we take to the sea, we walk on land. . . Before we create, we must understand. . .

Humility is not disgraceful, and carries no loss of true pride.

There's nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility is being superior to your former self.

You lose it if you talk about it.

Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.

America is the land of wide lawns and narrow minds.

But did thee feel the earth move?

[What is the definition of guts?] Grace under pressure.

When you have a child, the world has a hostage.