I would not sit waiting for some vague tomorrow, nor for something to happen. One could wait a lifetime, and find nothing at the end of the waiting. I would begin here, I would make something happen.

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

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.

No memory is ever alone; it's at the end of a trail of memories, a dozen trails that each have their own associations.

Nobody got anywhere in this world by simply being content.

A man in his life may have many teachers, some most unexpected. The question lies with the man himself: Will he learn from them?

I am somebody. I am me. And I don't need anybody to make me somebody.