Try

"I am invariably late for appointments - sometimes as much as two hours. I've tried to change my ways but the things that make me late are too strong, and too pleasing."

"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great."

"A pen went scribbling along. When it tried to write love, it broke."

"Rejection is better than doing nothing. The more you try, the better you get."

"You may choose to look the other way but you can never say again that you did not know."

"The people who were trying to make this world worse are not taking the day off. Why should I?"

"A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction."

"When you're writing you're trying to find out something which you don't know."

"If someone has a gun and is trying to kill you, it would be reasonable to shoot back with your own gun."

"I intend to live forever, or die trying."

"Regarding the fitness craze: America has lost its soul; now it's trying to save its body."

"It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed."