Maturity is reached the day we don't need to be lied to about anything.

Writing a novel is like building a wall brick by brick; only amateurs believe in inspiration.

Each man's death is fated from the beginning of time.

When it was over, it was not really over, and that was the trouble.

What the mind doesn't understand, it worships or fears.

There was no style in nature.

Understanding and knowledge are completely different sensations in the realm of Truth than they are in the realm of society.

A fair exterior is a silent recommendation.

The reason why parents mistreat their children has less to do with character and temperament than with the fact that they were mistreated themselves and were not permitted to defend themselves.

There was some justice in his pain

We believe that a person who is impoverished temporally cannot blossom spiritually.

I have the audacity to believe that peoples everywhere can have three meals a day for their bodies, education and culture for their minds, and dignity, equality and freedom for their spirits.

As you keep shooting the ball, you become a better basketball player.

Prison makes you a better judge of character. You pick up on people much faster.