The world doesn't make any heroes anymore.

There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.

My two fingers on a typewriter have never connected with my brain. My hand on a pen does. A fountain pen, of course. Ball-point pens are only good for filling out forms on a plane.

Hate is a lack of imagination.

Our worst enemies here are not the ignorant and simple, however cruel; our worst enemies are the intelligent and corrupt

Innocence always calls mutely for protection when we would be so much wiser to guard ourselves against it: innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.

Innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.

A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead.

A single feat of daring can alter the whole conception of what is possible.

Sweet are the thoughts that savor of content: the quiet mind is richer than a crown.

People who like quotes love meaningless generalizations

You have always known they exist. Everyone feels their presence. Few know the truth. The world of Real Immortals is about to be revealed!

May you find grace to be faithful at all times to the Lord.

To train a citizen is to train a critic. The whole point of education is that it should give a man abstract and eternal standards, by which he can judge material and fugitive conditions.

We are the eyes in the darkness

As equality increases, so does the number of people struggling for predominance.

Happiness: "You Bring Your Own Weather To The Picnic."

For the years, he felt, had not quenched his soul, or hers.

... how much of our inner substance is it good for us to give to public griefs? The whole modern tendency to agonize over the suffering of the entire globe is surely something new.

Progress comes to those who train and train; reliance on secret techniques will get you nowhere.

Old ocean's gray and melancholy waste.