Hunger and a lack of blood-corpuscles take all the manhood from a man.

I must confess that I lost faith in the sanity of the world

...and spend my days surrounded by wise books, - bright windows in this life of ours, lit by the shining souls of men.

It is when suffering finds a voice andsets our nerves quivering that this pity comes troubling us.

I never yet heard of a useless thing that was not ground out ofexistence by evolution sooner or later. Did you? And pain gets needless.

The crying sounded even louder out of doors. It was as if all the painin the world had found a voice

It's chance, I tell you, ' he interrupted, ' as everything is in a man's life.

one of those pertinacious tempers that would warm every day to a white heat and never again cool to forgiveness.

But, as I say, I was toofull of excitement and (a true saying, though those who have neverknown danger may doubt it) too desperate to die.

And the great difference between man and monkey is in the larynx.

I have no regrets from my past only pride over how far I have come to be the person I am today and hope that tomorrow I will be even better.

A novel that does not uncover a hitherto unknown segment of existence is immoral. Knowledge is the novel's only morality.

I don't think it's possible to write a good novel around a negative personality.

We all hope. It's what keeps us alive.

Don't tell me what I can't do!

Prayer is not an argument with God to persuade him to move things our way, but an exercise by which we are enabled by his Spirit to move ourselves his way.

No woman's getting hired because of her potential. I hope that we can invest more in female potential.

There are but few commanders who properly appreciate the value of celerity.

Dont count the things you do, do the things that count.