There is no telling what a human character is. Until the test comes. To most of us the test comes early in life. A man is confronted quite soon with the necessity to stand on his own feet, to face dangers and difficulties and to take his own line of dealing with them. It may be the straight way, it may be the crooked way --- whichever it is, a man usually learns early just what he is made of.

More children suffer from interference than from non-interference.

fiction is founded on truth....unless things did happen,people couldn't think of them.

Be sure thy sin will find thee out.

One is alone when the last one who remembers is gone.

Best of an island is once you get there - you can't go any farther...you've come to the end of things.

The point is that one's got an instinct to live. One doesn't live because one's reason assents to living. People who, as we say, 'would be better dead' don't want to die! People who apparently have everything to live for just let themselves fade out of life because they haven't got the energy to fight.