Unlike people, God will never turn His back on you. Trust in Him with all your heart, and you will never have to worry about being betrayed.

There was no time to lose, no time to waste in rest or play. The life of the earth comes up with a rush in the springtime.

... there are things that outweigh comfort, unless one is an old woman or a cat.

You would think it best to save your breath for running, but I often find screaming helps.

Every failure teaches a man something, if he will learn; and you are too sensible a man not to learn from this failure.

Wisdom is only found in truth. [Ger., Die Weisheit ist nur in der Wahrheit.]

If there is confusion in your head and in your heart, what more do you want! A man who no longer loves and no longer errs should have himself buried straight away.

I sympathize far more with heavier people than I ever will with thin. I'll never be thin. Let's be honest.

So much of the deep lingering sadness over President Kennedy's assassination is about the unfinished promise: unspoken speeches, unfulfilled hopes, the wondering about what might have been.

I started my first novel when I was 10, and have produced thousands of pages of juvenilia since.

A work well begun is half-ended.