Never get angry. Never make a threat. Reason with people.

The strength of a family, like the strength of an army, lies in its loyalty to each other.

A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns.

What is past is past. never go back. Not for excuses. Not for justification, not for happiness. You are what you are, the world is what it is.

A friend should always underestimate your virtues and an enemy overestimate your faults

Friendship and money: oil and water.

Never hate your enemies. It affects your judgment.

I don't trust society to protect us, I have no intention of placing my fate in the hands of men whose only qualification is that they managed to con a block of people to vote for them.

Many young men started down a false path to their true destiny. Time and fortune usually set them aright.

Great men are not born great, they grow great . . .

What we think of as our sensitivity is only the higher evolution of terror in a poor dumb beast. We suffer for nothing. Our own death wish is our only real tragedy.

Do you arrange your books alphabetically? (I hope not.)

The story you live is the ripple you leave.

We cannot exist without water.

With Christ as your partner, there is no such thing as failure, only results.

There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no really insurmountable barrier save our own inherent weakness of purpose.

Analysis does not set out to make pathological reactions impossible, but to give the patient's ego freedom to decide one way or another.

So you’ve made a friend. How sad for them.

Are deviations from full employment a social problem? Obviously.

Faith builds the bridge from this old world to the new.

I've spoken out my whole life against the idea of simply dismissing whole areas of fiction by saying it's "genre" and therefore can't be seen as literature.