Ernest Hemingway — "The hardest thing about writing a book is getting it started."

"The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and econ…"

"I learned a long time ago that you can't be friends with people who don't want to be friends with you."

"There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter."

"It's fun to get to know people who are very different from you."

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