Ben Hecht

A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.

You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.

A human being has a natural desire to have more of a good thing than he needs.

Life begets life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.

Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.

Being home alone at night makes me a bit nervous. If I’m at home alone, I have to sleep on the sofa – I can’t face going to bed. I’m there with the TV on and all the lights on. I’m not very brave about anything in life. In tennis, yes. In everything else, not very.

True life is lived when tiny changes occur.

How beautiful the world was when one looked at it without searching, just looked, simply and innocently.

If you get good at what you do, part of getting there is enjoying what other players do.

What gives life its value you can find – and lose. But never posess. This holds good above all for “the Truth about Life.

Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others; it is the only means.

In the Spring, I have counted 136 different kinds of weather inside of 24 hours.

People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they’ll have good voice boxes in case there’s ever anything really meaningful to say.

Writing is good, thinking is better. Cleverness is good, patience is better.

I accept chaos, I’m not sure whether it accepts me.