The man who gets drunk in peacetime is a coward. The man who gets drunk in wartime goes on being a coward.

A belief which leaves no place for doubt is not a belief; it is a superstition.

To be ready to fail is to be prepared for success.

Pride in a man is confused with dignity; in a woman, with self-love.

Sensuality without love is a sin; love without sensuality is worse than a sin.

Effort and result are never simultaneous. In art, only the result counts.

Tradition simply means that we need to end what began well and continue what is worth continuing

It may be impossible to have a revolution without crimes but that does not make revolution a crime.

To light one candle to God and another to the Devil is the principle of wisdom.

The thirst for adventure is the vent which Destiny offers; a war, a crusade, a gold mine, a new country, speak to the imagination and offer.

Who learns most from a good book is the author.

Hope comes not from the people around you, but from yourself.

Give me a literary love that doesn't need words, that flows like silent water and speaks to the bone. There I lose myself in the fantasy.

Life has got to be lived-that's all that there is to it.

To be in the mainline is to have a history and not simply to be an amalgam, a community church of who knows what that came from who knows where.

I never learned anything from a match that I won.

We are not making a capital investment into GM as the first element or condition.

I definitely acknowledge that The Matrix and Trinity had an influence on female action-oriented characters in television and in film. I think it's awesome.

I felt very bad in Washington. . . I didn't like my job, and I didn't know what was going to happen to me, and I was cold and half-hungry, so I wrote a great many poems.

Be plain in dress, and sober in your diet; In short, my deary, kiss me, and be quiet.

I am suggesting to you the simple idea that people work harder and smarter if they find their work satisfying and know that it is appreciated.