There are times when I think that the reading I have done in the past has had no effect except to cloud my mind and make me indecisive

Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of it.

There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity.

The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.

I cannot imagine any boy of spirit who would not be delighted to play a drunkard even to vomiting in front of his Sunday school. Indeed, the vomiting might be the chief attraction of the role.

The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealized past.

A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.

A man must be obedient to the promptings of his innermost heart.

Art is wine and experience is the brandy we distill from it.

Conversation in its true meaning isn't all wagging the tongue; sometimes it is a deeply shared silence.

The dog is a yes-animal. Very popular with people who can't afford a yes man.

The innocence of a child is an astounding quality which if not withered away as they grow can spread love and happiness everywhere

When I was very young, before I could read, I remember being very interested in comic books.

The Cause of civil liberty must not be surrendered at the end of one, or even one hundred defeats.

I am who I am, but I am not a bully.

Remember that unjust critisism is often a disquised compliment.

I think it [religion] is an art, the greatest one; an extension of the communion all the other arts attempt.

Thank you for accepting me as I am, with my virtues and defects.

God has given each normal person a capacity to achieve some end. True, some are endowed with more talent than others, but God has left none of us talentless.

You can't play well if you don't look good.