What is education but a conditioning of the mind to a society and a way of life.
No one can get an education, for of necessity education is a continuing process.
No memory is ever alone; it’s at the end of a trail of memories, a dozen trails that each have their own associations.
Men strive for peace, but it is their enemies that give them strength, and I think if man no longer had enemies, he would have to invent them, for his strength only grows from struggle.
No man ever raised a monument to a cynic or wrote a poem about a man without faith.
Our libraries are not cloisters for an elite. They are for the people, and if they are not used, the fault belongs to those who do not take advantage of their wealth.
Love is a moment of stillness that sometimes a word can shatter to pieces. Or love can be a thing that endures, a rich, deep current flowing unending through the years.
To pursue a man effectively, it is best to begin with his thinking.
A writer’s brain is like a magician’s hat. If you’re going to get anything out of it, you have to put something in it first.
Who mentioned the Church? On the contrary, I have great respect for religion. My objection is to those who are against so many things and for so little.
The fact of the matter is that poor men do not often steal, and when they do, it is petty theft, something to eat or perhaps an item of clothing to keep them from the cold. Thieves are usually those who have something and want more.
If you want to be creative, go where your questions lead you.
You are your own best teacher. My advice is to question all things. Seek for answers, and when you find what seems to be an answer, question that, too.
Knowledge was meant to be shared.
Adventure is nothing but a romantic name for trouble.
No man is lost while he yet lives.
What can the will do when the heart commands?
A mistake constantly made by those who should know better is to judge people of the past by our standards rather than their own. The only way men or women can be judged is against the canvas of their own time.
I fear there will be no future for those who do not change.
The dancer becomes the dance. And I am the writing.