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.

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.

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.

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

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.

In life we can never really value peace unless we experience war.

Do not exchange the 24 hours for money. Give some time for your own accomplishments.

How about you ask me something like, "What do you want more than anything?" and I reply with, "A hellhound in my bed"?

Military preparedness is absolutely a form of strength.

Truth and beauty can still win battles. We need more art, more passion, more wit in defense of the Earth.

People go to restaurants for so many different reasons. To court a girl, to make some deal. Maybe to talk to some lawyer about how to get an alimony settlement better than they got last week.

One foole makes a hundred.

Because prison sentences in America tend to be long, de-incarceration lags falling crime rates by a fair amount, but eventually it does catch up.

I believe that hope for the future depends on each of us taking nonviolence into our hearts and minds and developing new and imaginative structures which are nonviolent and life-giving for all.

You can't argue with math, Carter. You'll always lose.