F. Scott Fitzgerald

"Action is character."

"Intelligence is a good thing, but it can't be the only thing."

"Effort and dignity are the last things you can ever lose."

"The very rich because they possess and enjoy early, and to that perhaps we owe the phenomenon that the very rich are different from you and me."

"I believe that love is a good thing and when you find it, you should hold on to it."

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

"There's nothing worse than an honest mistake."

"So it goes—such is life."

"The greatest promise of my life is that I'll always try."

"America's greatest promise is that you can change things."

"There's a lustiness to life in the old days that is gone forever."

"That terrible irony that comes from the attempt to rationalize emotion."

"We are all beating against the tide of time."

"Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over."

"The test of courage is not to die, but to live."

"It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves."

"Writers aren't people exactly. Or if they're any people at all, they're a whole lot of people trying so hard to be one person."

"The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of."

"Tender is the night."

"So once again, to the bottom, and once more to the top of the world."

"All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath."

"Don't you think I know that the first duty in life is to assume a pose?"

"I want to care about the world as it is, not as I wish it to be."

"There were always friends around who hadn't heard the story."

"Confusion of values is the great menace."

"What's the use of doing anything myself when the doing isn't any good?"

"Successful people are not gifted, they just work hard."

"They can't hurt you unless you let them."

"Sometimes people display a certain strong aptness."

"I was brought up in a family of preachers and evangelists."