Unlike Christianity which preached a peace that it never achieved Islam unashamedly came with a sword.

When it becomes acceptable to kill another man or woman, childhood dies.” whispered Laurence. “When it becomes acceptable to kill a child…humanity dies.

You can't admit to someone else what you're too damn afraid to admit to yourself.

The day you stop learning more about yourself is the day you die.

People get very thoughtful when they are in cars. I no longer care for cars. I don't collect them.

Extremes produce reaction. Beware that our boasted civilization does not lapse into barbarism.

In the decline of the day, near Kentucky river, as we ascended the brow of a small hill, a number of Indians rushed out of a thick cane-brake upon us, and made us prisoners.

Talent is insignificant. I know a lot of talented ruins. Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck, but, most of all, endurance.

There are choices you have to make not just once

The tradition you have at the University of Texas is like no other.

In a place where everybody thinks alike, nobody thinks very much.