You have to do what you think is the right thing, but just make sure it’s the right thing in the long run, and not just for the moment.

There are special, strange gifted people in the world and they have to be treated with understanding

I never killed anybody and I never developed an intense level of hatred for the enemy. Because my war ended before I ever put on a uniform; I was on active duty all my time at school; I killed my enemy there.

Nothing endures. Not a tree. Not love. Not even death by violence.

So the more things remain the same, the more they change after all.

Never say you are five feet nine when you are five feet eight and a half" was the first one I encountered. Another was, "Always say some prayers at night because it might turn out that there is a God.

As I walked briskly out the road the wind knifed at my face, but this sun caressed the back of my neck.