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

"Never mistake motion for action."
-Ernest Hemingway

"There are events which are so great
that if a writer has participated in them
his obligation is to write truly
rather than assume the presumption
of altering them with invention."
-Ernest Hemingway

"All my life I've looked at words
as though I were seeing them for the first time."
-Ernest Hemingway

"When people talk, listen completely.
Most people never listen."
-Ernest Hemingway

"Courage is grace under pressure."
-Ernest Hemingway

"The man who has begun
to live more seriously within
begins to live more simply without."
-Ernest Hemingway