We must create world-wide law and law enforcement as we outlaw world-wide war and weapon

Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

This country cannot afford to be materially rich and spiritually poor.

Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.

One person can make a difference, and everyone should try.

No responsibility of government is more fundamental than the responsibility of maintaining the highest standard of ethical behavior for those who conduct the public business.

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.

Don't pray for an easy life, pray to be a stronger man.

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.

Collect memories

Well, most textbooks say language is a mechanism for expressing thought. But language is thought. Thought is information given form. The form is language.

You might, without my crediting it, fall deeply in love and forever, with some warped hunchback whelped in the gutter. I should equally stop you from taking him.

I had a happy marriage and a nice wife. I accomplished everything you can. What more can you want?

I think crime writing is my link with trying to preserve a sort of order.

Love yourself, appreciate yourself, see the good in you... and respect yourself.

This girl (Stephanie) is but a few months away from her seventeenth birthday and already she has saved the world and killed a god. What have you done?

The sight of a coward's blood can never make a warrior tremble.

I do like to collaborate, and I like hearing other people, and I like how somebody's performance will affect my own.

The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.