Anyone who remains silent in the face of murder is an accomplice to murder. Anyone who does not condemn approves.

I refuse to make money out of my science. My laurel is not for sale like so many bales of cotton.

I was out training one black night when I heard a noise. I turned around and saw a leopard. I threw some stones at him and he went away, so I went on my way.

... the main concern of the fiction writer is with mystery as it is incarnated in human life.

The only measure of your worth and your deeds will be the love you leave behind when you're gone.

War is not the best way of settling differences; it is the only way of preventing their being settled for you.

The inspiration can come in such small ways that if you sit there just waiting for the big epiphany you'll sit there for the rest of your life.

I think it's really important for actors to have another creative outlet, or for anyone, really.

I think that of most leaders in religion as power brokers. They give orders, in a sense, to an audience every week, and that's where the definition of God starts.

The first gold star a child gets in school for the mere performance of a needful task is its first lesson in graft.

The American army between world wars after World War I had virtually disintegrated. It was a very small force, given largely to practicing cavalry charges on western outposts.