"It's not the critic that counts...." - Quote by Theodore Roosevelt

“No people on earth have more cause to be thankful than ours, and this is said reverently, in no spirit of boastfulness in our own strength, but with the gratitude to the Giver of good who has blessed us.”

“Work hard at work worth doing.”

“Politeness [is] a sign of dignity, not subservience.”

“It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives. It's what we do consistently.”

“Be quick to take advantage of an advantage.”

“Significant things often happen when you are present. Things come to you, and then you respond to what is required. The response very often comes without a premeditated idea of what you want. It is simply a response to the situation.”

“One battle doesn't make a campagin, but critics treat one book, good or bad, like a whole war.”

“A reader is doubly guilty of bad manners against an author when he praises his second book at the expense of his first (or vice versa) and then expects the author to be grateful for what he has done.”

“I am opposed to writing about the private lives of living authors and psychoanalyzing them while they are alive. Criticism is getting all mixed up with a combination of the Junior FBI-men, discards from Freud and Jung and a sort of Columnist peep-hole and missing laundry list school. ... Every young English professor sees gold in them dirty sheets now. Imagine what they can do with the soiled sheets of four legal beds by the same writer and you can see why their tongues are slavering.”