Sinclair Lewis

"History repeats because we fail to learn its lessons."

"Philosophy is the practice of asking better questions."

"War is the failure of every other institution."

"Politics is the art of arranging human affairs."

"Motivation is temporary; discipline is permanent."

"Inspiration strikes those who are prepared to receive it."

"Solitude teaches what society obscures."

"Technology is neither good nor evil; it simply amplifies intention."

"The greatest revolution is the one that changes how people think."

"The trouble with faith is that it must be accompanied by works."

"Every person is a hero if they choose to be."

"American culture consists largely of people doing what they think others expect them to do."

"The successful man doesn't use other people, he works with them."

"Our American professors like their literature clear, cold, pure, and very dead."

"I have never been able to discover any reason why the pursuit of knowledge should be conducted in an unhappy spirit."

"A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him."

"We are all more stupid and pedestrian than anyone would believe, yet all of us contain more depths than anyone can fathom."

"To be creative means to be in love with life. You can only explain things that you love."

"I like inventors and makers of things, but I get along also with men who don't do anything."

"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that one's very existence is an act of rebellion."

"Hard work and opportunity make for success, but character makes for greatness."

"The man who has stopped worrying about whether he will succeed has already succeeded."

"It is impossible for me to believe that millions of years have been exhausted on this earth without producing a race whose women are as attractive as ours."

"Monotony is the father of all those gnawing envies by which men are disappointed in this world."

"To every man his own way; for every man his own truth."

"Science is a process of changing knowledge. It is not a mountain to climb and claim victory at the top."

"The curse of the Lincolns was that they never could stick to a single course of action."

"A man who calls himself a failure is predicting the future."

"I've always been an individualist. I don't care what people think."

"There's always a young man ready to take what you've achieved and improve upon it."