Oh, yes--you can shout me down, I know! But you cannot answer me. The majority has might on its side--unfortunately; but right it has not.

The sea possesses a power over one's moods that has the effect of a will. The sea can hypnotize. Nature in general can do so.

A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.

A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.

It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians.

The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom-they are the pillars of society.

The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.

Don't use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies.

The most dangerous enemy of the truth and freedom amongst us is the compact majority

...I'm no longer prepared to accept what people say and what's written in books. I must think things out for myself, and try to find my own answer.

I don't imagine you will dispute the fact that at present the stupid people are in an absolutely overwhelming majority all the world over.

The more genuinely creative [the writer] is, the more he will want his work to develop in accordance with its own nature, and to stand independent of himself

Starting requires motivation, finishing demands perseverance.

I must study alone, as I am condemned to do every thing alone, I believe, in this life.

If you are to be Hercule Poirot, you must think of everything.

I'm not a reporter but the 'New Yorker' treats everyone like a reporter.

One visit with a child can supply us with enough creativity dust to last for a lifetime... Visit with children like you're the child you ought to be more often.

The Catholics had been in the position of oppressors, and the Protestants of the oppressed

Faith is kept alive in us, and gathers strength, more from practice than from speculations.

I used to be a cheerleader, but fighting just seemed more, "me". So I went that route.

Most of those people who saw themselves as literary types at university became bank managers.