But for we could not know right from wrong. All things most desirable for man's welfare... are to be found portrayed in it.

The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.

Poverty is uncomfortable; but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and compelled to sink or swim.

A brave man is a man who dares to look the Devil in the face and tell him he is a Devil.

If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

I never meet a ragged boy in the street without feeling that i may owe him a salute, for I know not what possibilities may be buttoned up under his coat.

If wrinkles must be written on our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old.

I love agitation and investigation and glory in defending unpopular truth against popular error.

Ideas are the great warriors of the world, and a war that has no idea behind it, is simply a brutality.

The return to solid values is always hard... Distress, panic, and hard times have marked our pathway in returning to solid values.

If there is one thing upon this earth that mankind love and admire better than another, it is a brave man, - it is the man who dares to look the devil in the face and tell him he is a devil.

What separates courage from fear our the thoughts we choose to believe.

Consequences are part of one's life. You can't run away from them, but simply face them.

I write every day weekdays for about 5 hours, mostly longhand on legal pads. It has gotten neither harder nor easier, sadly or happily.

I doubt nuclear power will play a much larger role than it does now.

A book is kind because its pages let us know when it is coming to an end.

I feel like I've been watching Irwin Corey forever. I saw him in the 1950s, and I thought he was old then.

We are so used to seeing women as victims of war to be pitied rather than survivors of war to be respected.

You may drive out nature with a pitchfork, yet she'll be constantly running back.

The smell of good bread baking, like the sound of lightly flowing water, is indescribable in its evocation of innocence and delight

He who has a why can deal with any what or how.