Any person who wants to govern the world is by definition the wrong person to do it.

I will do those things which make me happy today and which I can also live with ten years from now.

The Terrible Truth is that brutality is part of human nature, and all the laws in the world can't neuter it.

Just because you will not see the work completed does not mean you are free not to take it up.

Sooner or later. It had better be sooner. Later is like the horizon; it recedes as you approach.

Man is the universe becoming conscious of itself.

Some things we must pass over in silence.

When everything is at risk, good judgment, not haste, makes the difference between life and death. Panic is the enemy.

Experiences are like hoarded gold. Whenever I dole out a piece of my private suffering, that is when I get letters from all over the world.

...the larger world lay not across oceans but within the human mind and heart.

My father has always been the heart of my Penn Cage novels.

Set goals, pursue them, achieve them, and then surpass them.

DEPORT yourself from the coast of negative attitudes and you will give your dreams a lift up from a level of high concentration of repeated failure to an indelible success! God is with you!

It is far better to know the painful truth than to live with a kindly falsehood.

Only big words for ordinary things on account of the sound.

Husbands and wives need to return regularly to the kinds of romantic activities that drew them together in the first place.

In the end it may well be that Britain will be more honoured by the historians for the way she disposed of an empire than for the way in which she acquired it.

True education is concerned not only with practical goals but also with values. Our aims assure us of our material life, our values make possible our spiritual life.

Out of evil comes good, however, and the confusion of tongues gave rise to 'the ancient practice of Masons conversing without the use of speech.'

So while you're trying to improvise, you're also trying to puppeteer, you're doing everything that you need to do to perform a puppet in our style, for a camera.

It is generally much more shameful to lose a good reputation than never to have acquired it.