...Proximity to a noose danger and death ... can make man or woman appreciate things.

I wonder why it is the man who pleads for mercy never gives it.

violence is an evil thing, but when the guns are all in the hands of the men without respect for human rights, then men are really in trouble.

One day I was speeding along at the typewriter, and my daughter - who was a child at the time - asked me, "Daddy, why are you writing so fast?" And I replied, "Because I want to see how the story turns out!

In the United States we have concentrated tremendous sums of money on the educational plant, seemingly with the idea that the right number of buildings will turn out the right number of graduates. Yet the teachers who actually instruct the future citizens of our country are more often than not miserably paid. If in the future we find ourselves with a lot of fourth-rate citizens, we have only ourselves to blame.

Being scared can keep a man from getting killed, and often makes a better fighter out of him.

The more one learns, the more he understands his ignorance.