Everyone has it within his power to say this I am today that I shall be tomorrow.
One learns to adapt to the land in which one lives.
A man shares his days with hunger thirst and cold with the good times and the bad and the first part of being a man is to understand that.
It has seemed to me that each year one should pause to take stock of himself, to ask: Where am I going? What am I becoming? What do I wish to do and become?Most people whom I encountered were without...
What is education but a conditioning of the mind to a society and a way of life.
Historical novels are, without question, the best way of teaching history, for they offer the human stories behind the events and leave the reader with a desire to know more.
Books are precious things, but more than that, they are the strong backbone of civilization. They are the thread upon which it all hangs, and they can save us when all else is lost.
A ship does not sail with yesterday's wind.
I am somebody. I am me. I like being me. And I need nobody to make me somebody.
Being scared can keep a man from getting killed and often makes a better fighter of him.
To exist is to adapt and if one could not adapt one died and made room for those who could.
To make democracy work, we must be a notion of participants, not simply observers. One who does not vote has no right to complain.
When a man is one of a kind, he will be lonely wherever he is.
Reading without thinking is as nothing, for a book is less important for what it says than for what it makes you think.
Ours was a family in which everybody was constantly reading, and where literature, politics, history, and the events of the prize ring were discussed at breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
One thing has always been true: That book or that person who can give me an idea or a new slant on an old idea is my friend.
Like I say, I killed a man or two but I'm no thief. My ma raised me better.
A journey is time suspended.
A book is less important for what it says than for what it makes you think.
The way I figure, no man has the right to be ignorant. In a country like this, ignorance is a crime. If a man is going to vote, if he's going to take part in his country and its government, then it's...