It doesn't pay well to fight for what we believe in.

It is best to act with confidence, no matter how little right you have to it.

Things start out as hopes and end up as habits.

There are people who eat the earth and eat all the people on it like in the Bible with the locusts. And other people who stand around and watch them eat.

Since when do you have to agree with people to defend them from injustice?

People change and forget to tell each other.

It's a sad day when you find out that it's not accident or time or fortune, but just yourself that kept things from you.

Nobody knows what you want except you, and no one will be as sorry as you if you don't get it.

I like people who refuse to speak until they are ready to speak.

I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.

For every man who lives without freedom, the rest of us must face the guilt.

If you take society’s definition of knowing oneself, you will become lost in the many translations.

The irritating question they ask us -- us being writers -- is: "Where do you get your ideas?"

Women - always in trouble with them, but can't live without them.

We stand for the maintenance of private property... We shall protect free enterprise as the most expedient, or rather the sole possible economic order.

It is a very solemn delusion when ministers think they are prospering, and yet do not hear of conversions.

Our goal should be to understand our differences.

First we have to understand what doubts and fears are, how anxiety and doubts and fears come about. They are a psychic disease.

I have too great a soul to die like a criminal.

The man or the woman who can display the nonviolence of the brave can easily stand against as external invasion.

He knelt and bent lower, till her breath warmed his face, and in a moment his cheek was in contact with hers. She was sleeping soundly, and upon her eyelashes there lingered tears.