Riches make cowards of us.

Resisted temptations become lost opportunities.

Character is the best security.

All wars are crusades, or we're made to feel they are. That's just what's so wicked about them. We're made to feel - not think - and people can't think when they feel.

There's nothing in all the world as much fun as talk. When you're talking, that is, with the right person.

Curious, isn't it that "talking with the right people" means something so different from "talking with the right person"?

The trouble with education is that we always read everything when we're too young to know what it means. And the trouble with life is that we're always too busy to re-read it later.

I've almost come to feel that it doesn't make much difference what you believe in - the thing that's important is a state of belief. It's much better to believe in nonsense than in nothing.

Sentiment, crystallized, grows into sentimentality. It lost all spontaneity, which was the essence of feeling. It was dated--old-fashioned.

Character comes before scholarship.

All banks should be under government control. Deposits guaranteed, dividends reduced, officials turned into state servants taking their orders from Washington.

Sometimes therapy takes years and years, and sometimes it can happen in one miraculous instant, a lifetime of doubt and self-hatred healed in a moment of astounding love.

Don't think that this people are stupid, probably you have caught one, but you didn't finish your work and what now???You were in their trap...

Being a late bloomer gives you a second chance at life.

I'm always sad to see a relationship not work, but what happens between two people is not my business.

When you want to touch the reader's heart, try to be colder. It gives their grief as it were, a background, against which it stands out in greater relief.

No one could tell me where my soul might be; I searched for God but he eluded me; I sought my brother out and found all three.

As a Protestant minister's son I am partial to apocalypses.

Even in bad times, always say thank you. Whatever you are going through, God is using you to get through. God has already put a rainbow in the cloud.

The best single question for testing an organization's character is: What happens when people make mistakes?

I had the insane misconception that I was ready to conquer the known universe with Tähtivaeltaja. No mercy!