Ernest Hemingway

There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's life to know them, the little new that each man gets from life is very costly and the only heritage he has to leave.

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

I have tried simply to write the best I can; sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.

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

All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened.

Grace under Pressure.

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

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

Live life to the fullest.

Switzerland is a small, steep country, much more up and down than sideways, and is all stuck over with large brown hotels built on the cuckoo style of architecture.