Ernest Hemingway

"Keep your eyes open and your heart even more open."

"The sun also rises and sets."

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

"Courage is grace under pressure."

"There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed."

"The shortest answer is doing the thing."

"Once writing has become your habit, you write every day."

"About morals, I'm sure only of this: all I know of morality I have learned from racing in the rain against the clock."

"Never go on trips with anyone you do not love."

"The cat has absolute emotional honesty."

"I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully."

"We are all broken, that's how the light gets in."

"Everybody thinks writers should be happy all the time because writing is a privilege."

"The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence."

"Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows."

"You can't get away from yourself by moving from one place to another."

"The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth."

"Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime."

"Forget your personal tragedy. We are here to record the age not to live it."

"Poverty is a great teacher."

"The world is a fine place and worth fighting for."

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

"Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know."

"I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well."

"The good earth is rich if men know how to work it."

"A man's got to take a lot of punishment to say anything in this world."

"Courage is the one thing you can't fake."

"The world is a younger man's world, but old men can enjoy it."

"There are only three sports: bullfighting, mountaineering, and motor racing; all the rest are merely games."

"Drinking wine was not a sordid thing."