He is a fool who looks at the fruit of lofty trees, but does not measure their height.

Despair is a great incentive to honorable death.

A spark neglected has often raised a conflagration. [Lat., Parva saepe scintilla contempta magnum excitavit incendium.]

Haste is slow. [Lat., Festinatio tarda est.]

The deepest rivers flow with the least sound.

The fashions of human affairs are brief and changeable, and fortune never remains long indulgent. [Lat., Breves et mutabiles vices rerum sunt, et fortuna nunquam simpliciter indulget.]

A cowardly cur barks more fiercely than it bites.

A spark neglected has often raised a conflagration.

Nothing can be lasting when reason does not rule.

The mob has no ruler more potent than superstition.

Fear makes men believe the worst.

... in moments of crisis our thoughts do not run consecutively but rather sweep over us in waves or intuition and experience ...

The poor lads called and called, but they were grown and had forgotten the best places to hide.

The mind is not a machine, it is an idea. And the Idea resists all attempts to control it.

It occurs to me as we're all sitting here thinking of Mickey, he's probably somewhere getting an earful from Casey Stengel, and no doubt quite confused by now.

[Our] first and foremost duty [is] to seek the Lord until we open the path of communication from God to our own soul.

Every writer, to some extent, writes about himself.

Dreams have always been my friend, full of information, full of warnings.

We fall in love forever many times, and many times we die.

It's always beautiful to see people striving to grow.

My CIA godfather told me he'd never heard any American speak Japanese so well.