We are mad, not only individually, but nationally. We check manslaughter and isolated murders; but what of war and the much-vaunted crime of slaughtering whole peoples?

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult

A sword by itself does not slay; it is merely the weapon used by the slayer.

The important thing about a problem is not its solution, but the strength we gain in finding the solution

Don't stumble over something behind you.

We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.

Great men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.

When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy.

There in no one more unfortunate than the man who has never been unfortunate. for it has never been in his power to try himself.

It's all in your headJ you have the power to make things seem hard or easy or even amusing. The choice is yours.

Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all.

I live very normally, I go out with my friends, we go to the movies, I queue, we go to restaurants.

I don't like the words 'I'm fine'. My mom tells me those two words are the most-frequently-told lie in the English lenguage.

Life is the acceptance of responsibilities or their evasion it is a business of meeting obligations or avoiding them.

I can't write the book I want to write, but I can and will write the book I am capable of writing.

When will talkers refrain from evil speaking: when listeners refrain from evil-hearing.

Youth is the trustee of prosperity.

As long as in love there is "you" and "me," love is not fully kindled.

She was stronger alone.

I can assure you that those villains will recognize, will discover in appropriate time in the future how stupid they are and how they are pretending things which have never taken place

The beauties of conception are always superior to those of expression.