The crying sounded even louder out of doors. It was as if all the painin the world had found a voice

I must confess that I lost faith in the sanity of the world

...and spend my days surrounded by wise books, - bright windows in this life of ours, lit by the shining souls of men.

It is when suffering finds a voice andsets our nerves quivering that this pity comes troubling us.

I never yet heard of a useless thing that was not ground out ofexistence by evolution sooner or later. Did you? And pain gets needless.

It's chance, I tell you, ' he interrupted, ' as everything is in a man's life.

one of those pertinacious tempers that would warm every day to a white heat and never again cool to forgiveness.

Hunger and a lack of blood-corpuscles take all the manhood from a man.

But, as I say, I was toofull of excitement and (a true saying, though those who have neverknown danger may doubt it) too desperate to die.

And the great difference between man and monkey is in the larynx.

Your dreams will come true, but do not be overly demanding. Be logical – there are not enough mansions for everyone in the world, are there?

...most Substance-addicted people are also addicted to thinking, meaning they have a compulsive and unhealthy relationship with their own thinking.

You are the earth, my dear grandson, and just like it takes everything without complaining, so have you shown us today that you will take everything in kind, and there's no greater title than this.

Laughter is America's most important export.

I definitely run up right, and I've got pretty good speed.

Exerting yourself to the fullest within your individual limits: that's the essence of running, and a metaphor for life

There are no degrees of honesty.

He who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich.

I don't know how much longer I can keep going without a friend. I used to be able to do it very easily, but that was before I knew what having a friend was like.

We have conquered for ourselves a place in the sun. It will now be my task to see to it that this place in the sun remains our undisputed possession, for our future lies upon the water.