The State, that cawing rookery of committees and subcommittees.

Short stories can be rather stark and bare unless you put in the right details. Details make stories human, and the more human a story can be, the better.

If you're experiencing no anxiety or discomfort, the risk you're taking probably isn't worthy of you. The only risks that aren't a little scary are the ones you've outgrown.

Most people confuse wishing and wanting with pursuing. You must place your trust in action.

Optimism inspires, energizes, and brings out our best. It points the mind toward possibilities and helps us think creatively past problems.

Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.

No sense being pessimistic. Wouldn't work anyway.

Too much attention on problems kills our faith in possibilities.

The profoundly humorous writers are humorous because they are responsive to the hopeless, uncouth, concatenations of life.

If you must doubt something, doubt your limits.

Your ethical muscle grows stronger every time you choose right over wrong.

Her reputation for reading a great deal hung about her like the cloudy envelope of a goddess in an epic.

Nicole can do anything that involves a ball and whistle.

A good picture is equivalent to a good deed.

Read yourself, not books. Truth isn't outside, that's only memory, not wisdom. Memory without wisdom is like an empty thermos bottle - if you don't fill it, it's useless.

The services in wartime are fit only for desperadoes, but in peace are only fit for fools.

If you are attached to the things of this earth, you should give alms sufficient to enable you to punish your avarice by depriving yourself of all that is not absolutely necessary for life.

You must have love as the core; it takes courage to be willing to constantly tell the truth to each other and risk letting the relationship go.

A cricketer's life is a life of splendid freedom, healthy effort, endless variety, and delightful good fellowship.

My dear, we live in an age of transition.