The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it.

People in their natural state are basically good. But this natural innocence,however, is corrupted by the evils of society.

I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.

There are always four sides to a story: your side, their side, the truth and what really happened.

Freedom is the power to choose our own chains

The freedom of Mankind does not lie in the fact that can do what we want, but that we do not have to do that which we do not want.

People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.

Why should we build our happiness on the opinons of others, when we can find it in our own hearts?

Those people who treat politics and morality separately will never understand either of them.

I am not made like any of those I have seen. I venture to believe that I am not made like any of those who are in existence. If I am not better, at least I am different.

No one is happy unless he respects himself.

The faith must express itself in charity and in solidarity, which is the civil form of charity.

I have written about some truly great writers - John Steinbeck, Robert Frost, and William Faulkner. Faulkner and Frost were the very peaks of American poetry and fiction in the 20th century.

Now, I had been frightened on several different occasions in my life. The most frightening of these involved an elevator and a mime.

Endlessly amused by people's minds.

The spark divine dwells in thee: let it grow.

What is cooking? 'Cooking' is a loose term. It's understanding energy or the lack thereof.

Speaking of death, LeBlanc boasted he could kill me in the waiting room. I broke his wrist. He wasn't impressed.

It is common to forget a man and slight him if his good will cannot help you.

One summer night, out on a flat headland, all but surrounded by the waters of the bay, the horizons were remote and distant rims on the edge of space.

The first and finest lesson that parents can teach their children is faith and courage.