In the mornings when they were in the city, they had breakfast on a card table in Jeffrey's study

His father watched him across the gulf of years and pathos which always must divide a father from his son.

If you have one strong idea, you can't help repeating it and embroidering it. Sometimes I think that authors should write one novel and then be put in a gas chamber.

I hope that I am as broadminded as others, and you have always seen a decanter of wine on the table.

I know a fellow who's as broke as the Ten Commandments.

You are not the first, and will not be the last, to say so. I wear my “warped” label with pride.

When a man is no longer anxious to do better than well, he is done for.

Climate change is the Everest of all problems, the thorniest challenge facing humankind.

The lesson is, the rewards in life don't always go to the biggest, or the bravest, or the smartest. The rewards go to the dogged; and when your going though hell, to the person who just keeps going.

Moses became Americas true founding father because he evangelized action; he justified risk. He gave ordinary people the courage to live with uncertainty.

Anyone can wrestle until they are tired.

You're supposed to be kind to everyone, because you never know when you're meeting an angel.

Childhood is the purest state. The pure of heart never leave it behind. Their life merely takes them on a cirtuitous route away from, and then back to it.

Dealing with complexity is an inefficient and unnecessary waste of time, attention and mental energy. There is never any justification for things being complex when they could be simple.

It is impossible to introduce into society a greater change and a greater evil than this: the conversion of the law into an instrument of plunder.