This is life! It can harden and it can exalt!

The sea possesses a power over one's moods that has the effect of a will. The sea can hypnotize. Nature in general can do so.

A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.

A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.

It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians.

The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom-they are the pillars of society.

The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.

Don't use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies.

The most dangerous enemy of the truth and freedom amongst us is the compact majority

...I'm no longer prepared to accept what people say and what's written in books. I must think things out for myself, and try to find my own answer.

I don't imagine you will dispute the fact that at present the stupid people are in an absolutely overwhelming majority all the world over.

It isn't for the moment you are stuck that you need courage but for the long uphill climb back to sanity and faith and security.

'Free Fallin' is a very good song. Maybe it would be one of my favorites if it hadn't become this huge anthem. But I'm grateful that people like it.

Hail and Farewell, my brother.

If an Englishman gets run down by a truck he apologizes to the truck.

Screw us once, shame on them; screw us twice, shame on us.

Now I have no caste, no creed, I am no more what I am!

It's hard enough to make a novel a novel. I wouldn't know how to make it something else at the same time

There's always an opportunity to make a difference

America's craft brewers know that beer, not wine, is the best beverage for accompanying a good meal.

Youth and nepotism, the twin horsemen of Hollywood!