I looked into that empty bottle and I saw myself.

Didn't you ever notice how it's always people who wish they had somethin' or had done somethin' that hate the hardest?

How easy it is, how dangerously easy it is to hate a man for one's own inadequacies.

If I'm a lousy writer, then an awful lot of people have lousy taste.

Indian summer is like a woman.

If every man, ...ceased to hate and blame every other man for his own failures and shortcomings, we would see the end of every evil in the world, from war to backbiting.

I have seldom, if ever, seen money and gentleness go hand in hand.

There can be neither beauty, nor trust, nor security between a man and a woman if there is not truth.

Dead folks can't hurt you none. It's the ones that are alive, you have to watch out for.

Did I read because I was lonely, or was I lonely because I started to read?

If it meant brighter stars, she would follow God into the darkness.

It is a moral travesty to give a woefully thirsty man a drink of water in a measuring cup.

The problem with being an author in this modern world is such: computers break often

I respect people in the military. And I always have, at least since I've been there.

You have to come to the world of enlightenment with open hands, not clinched fists, without an agenda.

We shall solve this problem, and afterwards Warsaw as the Capital and the pool of intelligentsia of that nation will be destroyed.

He that would look with contempt on the pursuits of the farmer, is not worthy the name of a man.

Better, Cilla thought, to be alone on a quiet night than to be alone in a crowd. Much better.

When you're out there talking about your faith and what you believe in, you'll face some backlash. But mostly, I've received support.

It is the business of a general to be serene and inscrutable, impartial and self-controlled.