mankind is resilient: the atrocities that horrified us a week ago become acceptable tomorrow.

I want to keep my dreams, even bad ones, because without them, I might have nothing all night long.

where are the snowdens of yesteryear?

When I grow up I want to be a little boy.

Every writer I know has trouble writing.

The country was in peril; he was jeopardizing his traditional rights of freedom and independence by daring to exercise them.

[They] agreed that it was neither possible nor necessary to educate people who never questioned anything.

Peace on earth would mean the end of civilization as we know it.

You know, that might be the answer - to act boastfully about something we ought to be ashamed of. That's a trick that never seems to fail.

He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody.

But how can one be warm alone?

Love can literally transform a human being. It can make us do either heroic or evil deeds. It is the best inspiration ever.

You can never have a successful end if you expect things to change as a result of miracles. Things will never change unless you take up the challenge to change them yourself.

Saying that someone is full of themselves is silly. Who else can one be full of … except self?

Her eyes always had a frantic, lost look. He could never cure her eyes of that.

To study the phenomena of disease without books is to sail an uncharted sea, while to study books without patients is not to go to sea at all.

Most people can't handle a structureless life.

Knowledge falters when imagination clips its wings or fears to use them.

The great revolution in the history of man, past, present and future, is the revolution of those determined to be free.

We shouldn’t use our own upset as an excuse for not helping.

Labour may be a burden and a chastisement, but it is also an honour and a glory. Without it, nothing can be accomplished.