Every country needs its heroes, and we must follow them.

Life is no brief candle but a splendid torch made to burn ever more brightly.

I have a conviction that it's only when you are put at full stretch that you can realise your full potential.

God knows the angel's wings must have been over us in view of the terrible mortality in all other camps up an down this line which seemed to be being built in bones.

The moral is obvious it is that great armaments lead inevitably to war.

The greatest inheritance that a man hath is the liberty of his person, for all others are accessory to it.

Slap-stick comedy is really funny, unless you're the one getting slapped with the stick.

The good news of the kingdom is not freedom from hardship, suffering, and loss. It is the news of a Redeemer who has come to scue me from myself.

Good literature is one key to peace. When we stop reading each other, when we stop paying attention to each other's words and stories, we too easily oppose one another.

The joy and smile of even one child is worth more than the prancing intellects of a thousand men

People might say that they liked honesty, but they didn’t, really.

The trouble you're expecting never happens

Most people spend their lives on their endeavors, and I get the privilege to have been doing this since I was five. I get to go play and have fun and entertain people.

The urge to convert experience into a group of words that are in a grammatical relation to one another is the most basic, ongoing impulse of my life.

We can see well into the past; we can guess shrewdly into the future, but that which is rolled up and muffled in impenetrable folds is today.

They were black like a lizard's and very large and, like the eyes of a lizard, could sometimes look sleepy.