He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but in the right word. The power of sound has always been greater than the power of sense.

Books may be written in all sorts of places. Verbal inspiration may enter the berth of a mariner on board a ship frozen fast in a river in the middle of a town.

The question is not how to get cured, but how to live.

Youth is insolent; it is its right - its necessity; it has got to assert itself, and all assertion in this world of doubts is a defiance, is an insolence.

A man's real life is that accorded to him in the thoughts of other men by reason of respect or natural love.

An artist is a man of action, whether he creates a personality, invents an expedient, or finds the issue of a complicated situation.

I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine.