. . . What do you wish to be? What would you like to become?” I did not know, and I told her so, but the question worried me. Should I know? “There is time,” she said, “but the sooner you know, the sooner you can plan. To have a goal is the important thing, and to work toward it. Then, if you decide you wish to do something different, you will at least have been moving, you will have been going somewhere, you will have been learning.

Power not only corrupts he who wields the power but those who submit to it. Those who grovel at the feet of power betray their fellows to hide themselves behind the cloak of submission. It is an evil thing.

A man can lose sight of everything else when he's bent on revenge, and it ain't worth it.

For one who reads, there is no limit to the number of lives that may be lived, for fiction, biography, and history offer an inexhaustible number of lives in many parts of the world, in all periods of time.

The trail is the thing, not the end of the trail. Travel too fast, and you miss all you are traveling for.

A man who says he has never been scared is either lying or else he's never been any place or done anything.

I do not like violence, but ours is a violent time, and there are some men who understand nothing else.