Style is effectiveness of assertion.

I choose not to make a graveyard of my body for the rotting corpses of dead animals.

You have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something.

Man's inhumanity to man is only surpassed by his cruelty to animals

Two people getting together to write a book is like three people getting together to have a baby. One of them is superfluous.

The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.

This is the true joy in life: Being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one, being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish little clod of ailments and grievances, complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy. I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it what I can. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got hold of for the moment and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.