35 Quotes by Arthur Hailey

Mostly because inactivity has never suited me well, and it isn't practical for me to write other books with worldwide implications and so on.

At half-past six on a Friday evening in January, Lincoln International Airport, Illinois, was functioning, though with difficulty.

No man can really succeed if he doesn’t move away from where he was born. I believe it is particularly true for the writer.

Winners will be losers if they don’t support the losers.

I have been extraordinarily lucky. Anyone who pretends that some kind of luck isn’t involved in his success is deluding himself.

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I – I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.

So let me tell you, Nicky, there’s nothing wrong with being scared to death. It can happen to the best. What counts is hanging on, somehow staying in control and doing what you know you should.

As long as you could feel your heart – wherever it seemed to be – that was the important thing. Libby had an instinct for essentials; at times he had the impression that her little hands reached up and gathered stars of truth.

But then I get to thinking of our mortality and human weakness, remembering there has never been power with purity – anywhere. If you want to be pure, you must stand alone. If you seek to do positive things, achieve something, leave the world a mite better than you found it, then you must choose power and throw some of your purity away. There’s no other choice.