There are admirable potentialities in every human being. Believe in your strength and your youth. Learn to repeat endlessly to yourself, 'It all depends on me.'
Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.
I phoned my dad to tell him I had stopped smoking. He called me a quitter.
There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.
Our patience will achieve more than our force.
Darryl wasn't in good shape -- he was white-faced and panting.
Van's sweater was soaked in blood.