Ernest Hemingway

“The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.”

“Courage is grace under pressure.”

“The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.”

“There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.”

“The first draft of anything is shit.”

“There is no friend as loyal as a book.”

“Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.”

“I drink to make other people more interesting.”

“But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.”

“Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.”

“Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.”

“The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.”

“When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.”

“As a writer, you should not judge, you should understand.”

“All things truly wicked start from an innocence.”

“Prose is architecture, not interior decoration.”

“Write drunk, edit sober.”

“We are all broken. That's how the light gets in.”

“My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.”

“Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.”