After all, we are human beings, and not creatures of infinite possibilities.

Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of it.

There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity.

The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.

I cannot imagine any boy of spirit who would not be delighted to play a drunkard even to vomiting in front of his Sunday school. Indeed, the vomiting might be the chief attraction of the role.

The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealized past.

A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.

A man must be obedient to the promptings of his innermost heart.

Art is wine and experience is the brandy we distill from it.

Conversation in its true meaning isn't all wagging the tongue; sometimes it is a deeply shared silence.

The dog is a yes-animal. Very popular with people who can't afford a yes man.

I believe that being happy is the only important thing. Happiness. Simple as a glass of chocolate or torturous as the heart. Bitter. Sweet. Alive.

If loving and communing with God isn’t your primary purpose in prayer, you’re missing out on what Christianity is all about!

What light is to the eyes – what air is to the lungs – what love is to the heart, liberty is to the soul of man.

I'm not against taking shots, but I am against taking bad shots.

I don't pretend to be objective. There is no such thing as being an objective journalist.

The right shoe can make everything different.

Even victors are by victories undone.

Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back.

Pressure can burst a pipe, or pressure can make a diamond.

One of the strange things about violent and authoritarian regimes is they don't like the glare of negative publicity.