I am a writer because writing is the thing I do best.
One never finds anything perfectly pure and ... exempt from danger.
I am a man More sinn'd against than sinning.
What allows us, as human beings, to psychologically survive life on earth, with all of its pain, drama, and challenges, is a sense of purpose and meaning.
The conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character-building value of privation for the poor.
An angry man opens his mouth and shuts up his eyes.
When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not.
There are times when sympathy is as necessary as the air we breathe.
Without forgiveness life is governed ... by an endless cycle of resentment and retaliation.
What is actual is actual only for one time, and only for one place.
Something must be left to chance; nothing is sure in a sea fight.
The supreme excellence is not to win a hundred victories in a hundred battles. The supreme excellence is to subdue the armies of your enemies without even having to fight them.
When the white man came, we had the land and they had the bibles. Now they have the land and we have the bibles.
He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.
This is the final test of a gentleman: his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him.
To like and dislike the same things, this is what makes a solid friendship.
He is not only idle who does nothing, but he is idle who might be better employed.
She had lost the art of conversation, but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.
Flying from the U.S. to Tokyo takes approximately as long as law school.
Parents are friends that life gives us; friends are parents that the heart chooses.