Browsing through the shelves in bookstores or libraries, I was completely happy.
A good beginning makes a good end.
The terms we use for what is considered supernatural are woefully inadequate. Beyond such terms as ghost, specter, poltergeist, angel, devil, or spirit, might there not be something more our purposefu...
Anger is a killing thing: it kills the man who angers, for each rage leaves him less than he had been before - it takes something from him.
Too often I would hear men boast of the miles covered that day, rarely of what they had seen.
It is brutal. Only I never could see the sense in having folks look at your tombstone and say, 'He was a man who didn't believe in violence, He's a good man... and dead.
Much of the study of history is a matter of comparison, of relating what was happening in one area to what was happening elsewhere, and what had happened in the past. To view a period in isolation is...
Because a man plays a king superbly well does not mean that he would make a good king.
No memory is ever alone it's at the end of a trail of memories, a dozen trails that each have their own associations.
The key to understanding any people is in its art: its writing, painting, sculpture.
A great book begins with an idea; a great life, with a determination.
If we are to become a land of homes and people, evil men must not be allowed to persist in their evil.
Personally, I do not believe the human mind has any limits but those we impose ourselves.
To make democracy work, we must be a nation of participants, not simply observers. One who does not vote has no right to complain.
No one can get an education, for of necessity education is a continuing process.
Only one who has learned much can fully appreciate his ignorance.
I'm sorry! I really am! I wanted to get out of this place! I want to live! I want to get away from here and never see it again! I hate everything about it!You will hate the next place, too, I said. Wh...
Knowledge is like money: to be of value it must circulate, and in circulating it can increase in quantity and, hopefully, in value.
It means little to anybody but us. We set store by kinfolk. We've our troubles from time to time, but when one of us is in danger, there'll be help from any who are around.
For you and me today is all we have tomorrow is a mirage that may never become reality.