Remember, a book is always a gift.

Don't be a martyr to your imagination.

He wanted to limit me to his own investigation of who I was . . .

Knowing when to fight is just as important as knowing how.

The time for princes and tsars and holy madmen was gone.In its place came a world of war and revolution, of tanks andtelephones, murder and assassination.

Speak when you are angry - and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret.

Will power is only the tensile strength of one's own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.

Sometimes a beautiful face is false advertising

In my opinion, no feminism worthy of the name is not methodologically post-marxist.

I will wait and watch till the day of David at last shall be finished, and wisdom no more fox-faced, and the blood gets back its flame.

I'm not putting them on,” said old Archie in indignation. “I like a healthy breeze 'round my privates, thanks.

A civilised man is someone who has discovered something more satisfying than combat.

I just couldn't stand school. If I went, I'd skip after the first class. I didn't like to be told I had to study and had to do homework. There's a fact that you have to want to learn.