Sinclair Lewis

"If you have any young friends who aspire to become authors, the best advice you can give them is to kill themselves."

"The outstanding principle of the modern movement in business is to reduce prices and increase production."

"The man who is compelled to work for a man who despises him must have a curious admixture of meekness and impudence."

"We have, in fact, nothing but faith in ourselves to rely upon."

"The fear of offending is what silences the honest person."

"Revolt and freedom demand courage to live without the certainty that comes from popular opinion."

"In the hands of the ignorant, even a small fact becomes a dangerous weapon."

"The greatest joys in life come from the simplest of things."

"Perhaps it is well to be reminded that the end justifies the means only when the means are themselves justified."

"Our universities are increasingly producing a race of monkeys instead of scientists."

"The ability to laugh at oneself is the beginning of wisdom."

"Success is just a matter of luck. Ask any failure."

"The truly ambitious man creates when he cannot find what he desires."

"A man who loves any woman who will have him is not to be blamed."

"Loneliness, not motherhood, is the curse of modern woman."

"The minute a man ceases to struggle, to think, to invent things for himself, he is going to cease to progress."

"In America, the young are always taking the lead, and the old are always looking back in this bewilderment."

"If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs, you have probably misunderstood the situation."

"Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem."

"The beauty of a stable friendship is that it can withstand the weather of misunderstanding."

"To be creative, one must first reject the false hope of security."

"A man should be honored for the enemies he makes."

"The responsibility of journalism is to speak the truth, however unpopular."

"We can never be satisfied with simple answers to complex problems."

"Every individual has a right to make themselves ridiculous if they see fit."

"In the presence of children, even the wisest adult must learn humility."

"The world changes fundamentally with every generation that dares to dream."

"Science is the systematic arrangement of knowledge. Poetry is the arrangement of emotion."

"No man who is ambitious for power can ever be said to be truthful."

"The adventure that modern man needs is the adventure of thinking."