The face of nature and civilization in this our country is to a certain point a very sufficient literary field. But it will yield its secrets only to a really grasping imagination. To write well and worthily of American things one need even more than elsewhere to be a master.

I am in the Master of Professional Writing program teaching Humor Writing Literary and Dramatic.

Being insecure - I'm a master a virtuoso - they can be handing me the keys to the kingdom and all I can think is I hope I don't drop the key.

Happiness is a hard master particularly other people's happiness.

Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.

Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.

The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.

The essays in The Great Taos Bank Robbery were my project to win a Master of Arts degree in English when I quit being a newspaper editor and went back to college.

I received my undergraduate degree in engineering in 1939 and a Master of Science degree in mathematical physics in 1941 at Steven Institute of Technology.

I believe that government is the servant of the people and not their master.

If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot therefore maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.

Government is not reason it is not eloquent it is force. Like fire it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.

Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.

One good schoolmaster is of more use than a hundred priests.

He who is not a good servant will not be a good master.

No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.

For good or for ill air mastery is today the supreme expression of military power and fleets and armies however vital and important must accept a subordinate rank.