It's good to suffer. Dont complain. Bear, bow, accept - and be grateful that God has made you suffer. For this makes you better than the people who are laughing and happy.

You must be the kind of man who can get things done. But to get things done, you must love the doing, not the secondary consequences.

to rest one's case on faith means to concede that reason is on the side of one's enemies- that one has no rational arguments to offer.

A culture is made — or destroyed — by its articulate voices.

I write - and read - for the sake of the story... My basic test for any story is: 'Would I want to meet these characters and observe these events in real life? Is this story an experience worth living through for its own sake? Is the pleasure of contemplating these characters an end itself?

Or did you say it's the love of money that's the root of all evil? To love a thing is to know its nature. To love money is to known and love the fact that money is the creation of the best power within you, and your passkey to trade your effort for the effort of the best among men. It's the person who would sell his soul for a nickel, who is loudest in proclaiming his hatred of money - and he has good reason to hate it. The lovers of money are willing to work for it. They know they are able to deserve it.

A rational man knows-or makes it a point to discover-the source of his emotions, the basic premises from which they come.