Humanity has been passing through a gray and desolate time of confusion.

The craft of writing is the art of penetrating other minds with the figures that are in your own mind.

We spend our time searching for security and hate it when we get it.

The fields were fruitful, and starving men moved on the roads.

The Hebrew word, the word timshel - 'Thou mayest' - that gives a choice. It might be the most important word in the world. That says the way is open...Why, that makes a man great...He can choose his course and fight it through and win...I have a new love for that glittering instrument, the human soul. It is a lovely and unique thing in the universe. It is always attacked and never destroyed - because 'Thou mayest'. ch 24

You got to live before you can afford to die.

I have owed you this letter for a very long time-but my fingers have avoided the pencil as though it were an old and poisoned tool.