Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.
We inhereit from our ancestors gifts so often taken for granted... Each of us contains within... this inheritance of soul. We are links between the ages, containing past and present expectations, sacred memories and future promise.
I know that you believe that you understood what you think I said, but I am not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.
A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted.
Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should resist on principle.
Terrorists killed a lot fewer people than bathroom falls and accidental electrocutions.