The writing begins when you've finished. Only then do you know what you're trying to say.

The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.

When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everyone will respect you.

He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.

You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.

No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means.

Every person has their own colour.

Whenever there is fear, you will get wrong figures.

A bad system will beat a good person every time.

History is just the portrayal of crimes and misfortunes.

Selfishness is never so exquisitely selfish as when it is on its knees. ... Self turns what would otherwise be a pure and powerful prayer into a weak and ineffective one.

Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time.

So long as there is death there will be sorrow, and so long as there is sorrow it can be no part of the duty of human beings to increase its amount, in spite of the fact that a few rare spirits know how to transmute it.

Many a man will have the courage to die gallantly, but will not have the courage to say, or even to think, that the cause for which he is asked to die is an unworthy one.