Sinclair Lewis

"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all."

"The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."

"The trouble with us in America isn't that the poetry of life has gone; it's that America has overlooked poetry, that America always goes busy to regard the simple beautiful things of living."

"Every man is a king so long as he has someone lower than him on whom he can look down to."

"I like your plan. We will have beauty, or we will have none."

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

"Often the greatest thing an ambitious man achieves is overcoming his own small-mindedness."

"To a feminist, the hardest thing to realize is that she is not better than men, merely different."

"People will buy anything that is one to a customer."

"The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude."

"We are the heirs of thousands of years of evolution, and we have within us the power of the gods themselves."

"Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way to sell goods, particularly products that have no merit."

"The solution to problems does not delete the problems; it creates new ones."

"One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often."

"The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done."

"In every human being there is some longing, however repressed, for beauty and nobility of character."

"Intellectually, I know America is no better than any other country; emotionally I know she is better than every other country."

"A person who makes no mistakes does not try new things."

"The resentment of the ordinary man toward the educated man is the resentment of the earth toward the seed."

"Our inheritance of well-built party machinery does us yeoman service."

"Courage, unlike judgment, cannot be trained; it must be born in you."

"We are all of us jimmying and jockeying the facts to suit our purposes."

"A man's own faith is the greatest enemy of his own faith."

"No man fully capable of his own opinion has ever lost a winking contest."

"The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow."

"I would have preferred to be a mere artist, but I chose literature instead."

"A man may work from sun to sun, but a woman's work is never done."

"The ultimate lesson all of us have to learn is unconditional love, which includes ourselves."

"All of us every single year, we're a different person. I don't think we're the same person all our lives."

"To the general public, a novel is a novel. They do not distinguish between the Iliad and a dime novel."