I think dialects should be left alone. People should write in whatever dialect they feel they want to write. In the fullness of time, these dialects will sort themselves out.

It always surprised him when he thought of it later that he did not sink under the load of despair.

Democracy is not something you put away for ten years, and then in the 11th year you wake up and start practicing again. We have to begin to learn to rule ourselves again.

That we are surrounded by deep mysteries is known to all but the incurably ignorant.

If a child washed his hands, he could eat with kings.

I'm very primitive; I write with a pen.

A man of worth never gets up to unsay what he said yesterday.