Were there a Christian so faithful to his God as I was to her we would all be Jesus Christ today.

Don't look for miracles. You yourself are the miracle.

Example moves the world more than doctrine. The great exemplars are the poets of action, and it makes little difference whether they be forces for good or forces for evil.

Every man has his own destiny: the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him.

I soon found out you can't change the world. The best you can do is to learn to live with it.

Every man with a bellyful of the classics is an enemy to the human race.

People are like lice - they get under your skin and bury themselves there. You scratch and scratch until the blood comes, but you can't get permanently deloused.