Out of all this struggle a good thing is going to grow. That makes it worthwhile.

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.

Men really do need sea-monsters in their personal oceans

No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.

A dying organism is often observed to be capable of extraordinary endurance and strength. .. When any living organism is attacked, its whole function seems to aim towards reproduction.

It is possible, even probable, to be told a truth about a place, to accept it, to know it and at the same time not to know anything about it.

The great companies did not know that the line between hunger and anger is a thin line.