No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one.

Let him think is I am more man than I am and I will be so.

The better the writers the less they will speak about what they have written themselves.

Before you react, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you criticize, wait. Before you quit, try.

No good book has ever been written that has in it symbols arrived at beforehand and stuck in. ... I tried to make a real old man, a real boy, a real sea and a real fish and real sharks. But if I made them good and true enough they would mean many things

Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth.

Oh, darling, I've been so miserable.