I cannot imagine any boy of spirit who would not be delighted to play a drunkard even to vomiting in front of his Sunday school. Indeed, the vomiting might be the chief attraction of the role.

Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of it.

There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity.

The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.

The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealized past.

A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.

A man must be obedient to the promptings of his innermost heart.

Art is wine and experience is the brandy we distill from it.

Conversation in its true meaning isn't all wagging the tongue; sometimes it is a deeply shared silence.

The dog is a yes-animal. Very popular with people who can't afford a yes man.

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Positive minds full of faith and hope produce positive lives.

People who own the world outright for profit will have to be stopped by influence, by power, by us.

Opportunity does not waste time with those who are unprepared.

I’m much more than a writer – I’m someone who puts different words together in an interesting way.

Distrust is like a vicious fire that keeps going and going, even put out, it will reignite itself, devouring the good with the bad, and still feeding on empty.

Footage of love is loyalty.

That's a bit like asking a man crawling across the Sahara whether he would prefer Perrier or Malvern water.

If you would understand your own age, read the works of fiction produced in it. People in disguise speak freely.

The teachers thought there was something wrong with me because I wouldn’t talk to other kids. I was almost playing mind games with them.

Abigail Adams could become my favorite historical sleuth.