I write to reach people's common sense and intelligence, to show them that if they unite they can make a different world possible.

The mining industry might make wealth and power for a few men and women, but the many would always be smashed and battered beneath its giant treads.

I'm overflowing with stories, delighted and quite mad with the beauty and tragedy of them.

Don't sacrifice your life to work and ideals. The most important things in life are human relations. I found that out too late.

Greatness is finding your natural talent, fueling it with passion, planting it in well-nourished soil, and toiling in the garden until it breaks through the earth and reaches for the stars.

When you realise the difference between the container and the content, you will have knowledge

Nothing lasts longer than a temporary government program.

When fiction rises pleasing to the eye, men will believe, because they love the lie; but truth herself, if clouded with a frown, must have some solemn proof to pass her down.

The yearbook voted me most likely to be scraped off an onramp by a puking fireman.

The youth may build or plant or sail, only let him not be hindered from doing that which he tells me he would like to do.

Man is never perfect nor contented.

Fantasy is often better than reality. It's much more inspiring not to go to places than to go.

Unity, to be real, must stand the severest strain without breaking.

No man is so methodical as a complete idler, and none so scrupulous in measuring out his time as he whose time is worth nothing.