He can kill anything for need but he could not even hurt a feeling for pleasure.

It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.

How can I teach my boys the value and beauty of language and thus communication when the President himself reads westerns exclusively and cannot put together a simple English sentence? (John Steinbeck, in a private letter written during the Eisenhower administration)

For it is said that humans are never satisfied, that you give them one thing and they want something more. And this is said in disparagement, whereas it is one of the greatest talents the species has and one that has made it superior to animals that are satisfied with what they have.

You are not a man anymore. You are a soldier. Your comfort is of no importance and your life isn't of much importance. Most of your orders will be unpleasant, but that's not your business. They should've trained you for this, and not for flower-strewn streets. They should have built your soul with truth, not led along with lies.

Literature is as old as speech. It grew out of a human need for it, and it has not changed except to become more needed

It was too nerve-wracking, a shocking spectacle, like seeing an old, calm friend go insane.