I was too far away to hear what was said but I saw in Val’s eyes the same fear that I had once known and could well guess at Lucas’ unthinking remark.

They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

One day I'll be as strong as people think I am.

Vous travaillez pour l'armee, madame?' (You are working for the army?), a Frenchwoman said to me early in the Vietnam war, on hearing I had three sons.

Those of our writers who have possessed a vivid personal talent have been paralyzed by a want of social background.

I stopped living a long time ago, in order to simply exist. Now I am trying to leave existence, in order to step into nihility.

Understanding does not cure evil, but it is a definite help, inasmuch as one can cope with a comprehensible darkness.

Friendship is the grand fundamental principle of Mormonism

Money numbs your senses. People who touched paper money and then placed their hands in hot burning water didn't feel as much pain as those who hadn't touched money.

These are very serious times, and serious people need to be doing some serious thinking.

Youth longs and manhood strives, but age remembers.