If there is one place on the face of earth where all the dreams of living men have found a home from the very earliest days when man began the dream of existence, it is India.

There is only one heroism in the world: to see the world as it is, and to love it.

Most men are essentially dead by thirty.

Be reverent before the dawning day. Do not think of what will be in a year, or in ten years. Think of to-day.

No one ever reads a book. He reads himself through books.

It is the artist's business to create sunshine when the sun fails.

One makes mistakes; that is life. But it is never a mistake to have loved.

A hero is a man who does what he can.

Any man who is really a man must learn to be alone in the midst of others, to think alone for others, and, if necessary, against others.

Discussion is impossible with someone who claims not to seek the truth, but already to possess it.

The friend who understands you, creates you.

Modernity kills ghostly romance("The Undying Thing")

God will certainly reward virtue and punish vice, either here or hereafter.

I hope to soon be in contact with the man who is searching for Noah's ark.

Writing is not an amusing occupation. It is a combination of ditch-digging, mountain-climbing, treadmill and childbirth.

A smile goes a long way, but you must first start it on its journey.

The creative processes are so mysterious.

I have friends struggling with autism, juvenile diabetes.

I want to become the player that the offense gameplans around, that the offense fears coming into the game.

War defined my entire childhood and youth and most of my adulthood too - and in the US, it continues to do so.