Even extreme grief may ultimately vent itself in violence--but more generally takes the form of apathy

Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.

The air of the New World seems favorable to the art of declamation.

It is not the clear-sighted who rule the world. Great achievements are accomplished in a blessed, warm fog.

I don't like work... but I like what is in work - the chance to find yourself. Your own reality - for yourself, not for others - which no other man can ever know.

The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.

We penetrated deeper and deeper into the heart of darkness

If you don't make mistakes, you don't make anything .

There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea.

To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of many words and man appears a mere talking animal not much more wonderful than a parrot.

They talk of a man betraying his country, his friends, his sweetheart. There must be a moral bond first. All a man can betray is his conscience.

I grew up in the limelight and being the child of someone famous. So my relationship with fame is not bedazzled.

If Christ cannot supersede the Law, then I am lost, and lost forever.

Discipline is a necessary tool to help you get what you want in life. It forces you to stay on center and to move away from the things that are not necessary.

I would rather be a rebel than a slave.

Many men and women spend their lives in unsuccessful attempts to spin the flax God sends them upon a wheel they can never use.

I go back there and all my friends are there when I have my golf tournament. They treat me the same way they did when I was growing up.

It is easy enough to praise men for the courage of their conviction. I wish I could teach the sad young of this mealy generation the courage of their convictions.

I glory in publicly avowing my eternal enmity to tyranny.

If I worked 8 months on a deal and it didn't go through - I'd punch a wall, get depressed and change careers.

When success happens to an English writer, he acquires a new typewriter. When success happens to an American writer, he acquires a new life.