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.
Much of command is the ability to take command.
He who plants a tree is a servant of God.
If you wait for inspiration, you're not a writer, but a waiter.
I really learned how to write from Robert Louis Stevenson, Anthony Trollope, and de Maupassant.
A man can learn a lot if he listens, and if I didn't learn anything else I was learning how much I didn't know.