If the bell of intolerance tolls for one, it tolls for all.

Arrogance, pedantry, and dogmatism...the occupational diseases of those who spend their lives directing the intellects of the young.

While the novel-writer aims at an eminently natural method of transcription, the author of the short story adopts a very artificial one

Live deep instead of fast.

Live deep instead of fast. I think this is what Thoreau meant.

A short story is simplification to the highest degree

The function of the Short Story is to be interesting, to convey vivid impressions, an therefore it must, to a degree, work with the evident and superficial thing

Flatulency today consists in saying simply in several different ways the same thing over and over again.

The true measure of a person is not in what he knows, but what he does with what he knows.

Cultivating quietness is a missing discipline today...the quietness needed to nurture an inner life hid in Christ.

I don't know how to not become every person I walk by.

Never like seein' strangers. Guess it's cause no stranger ever good newsed me.

Reputation shows who people think you are. Character shows who you really are.

I've had people turn me down. Not all that many, but certainly it happens.

No act of love is ever wasted.

Kennedy was haunted by the Bay of Pigs invasion but carried the country through the Cuban Missile Crisis. He later increased the number of U.S. military advisers to South Vietnam to more than 16,000.

The sun never sets on a Hells Angels' patch.

I love goofing around, and I love breaking people's balls. I do it off camera, as well as on camera.