Work hard, stay positive, and get up early. It’s the best part of the day.

There is but one way for a president to deal with Congress, and that is continuously, incessantly, and without interruption. If it is really going to work, the relationship has got to be almost incestuous.

I love my work with a frenetic and perverse love, as an ascetic loves the hair shirt which scratches his belly.

We treat our people like royalty. If you honor and serve the people who work for you, they will honor and serve you.

O man you are busy working for the world, and the world is busy trying to turn you out.

The difference between people who believe they have books inside of them and those who actually write books is sheer cussed persistence – the ability to make yourself work at your craft, every day – the belief, even in the face of obstacles, that you’ve got something worth saying.

This is a work of fiction. All the characters in it, human and otherwise, are imaginary, excepting only certain of the fairy folk, whom it might be unwise to offend by casting doubts on their existence. Or lack thereof.

You don’t have to turn on the TV set. You don’t have to work on the Internet. It’s up to you.