It is my belief no man ever understands quite his own artful dodges to escape from the grim shadow of self-knowledge.

My task, which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel--it is, before all, to make you see.

Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory, and the truth of every passion wants some pretence to make it live.

The sky over Patusan was blood-red, immense, streaming like an open vein. An enormous sun nestled crimson amongst the treetops, and the forest below had a black and forbidding face.

Never test another man by your own weakness.

How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a spectre through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by its spectral throat?

I had turned away from the picture and was going back to the world where events move, men change, light flickers, life flows in a clear stream, no matter whether over mud or over stones.

Are not our lives too short for that full utterance which through all our stammerings is of course our only and abiding intention?

Thus ended the first and adventurous part of his existence. What followed was so different that, but for the reality of sorrow which remained with him, this strange part must have resembled a dream.

It was a dark story.

This mournful and restless sound was a fit accompaniment to my meditations.

Hope is like a word made with cloud, without faith, it quickly blows away.

He who wishes to be rich within a day, will be hanged within a year.

Believe that with your feelings and your work you are taking part in the greatest the more strongly you cultivate this belief the more will reality and the world go forth from it.

The history of all times and of today especially teaches that... women will be forgotten if they forget to think about themselves.

For all the hardship, I was still excited to be on the trail, testing my endurance, feeling especially alive as strength and fatigue flowed alternately through my limbs.

To be truly soigne, a man should have 80 suits.

I still feel like I'm trying to make it. It's hard to shed the struggling actor thing.

Peace is the greatest weapon for development that any person can have.

Amtrak offers riders a cost-effective way to travel throughout the country.

She's television generation. She learned life from Bugs Bunny. The only reality she knows comes to her through the television set.