What people speak of as adventure is something nobody in his right mind would seek out, and it becomes romantic only when one is safely at home.

Everyone has it within his power to say, this I am today, that I shall be tomorrow.

Often I hear people say they do not have time to read. That's absolute nonsense. If one really wants to learn, one has to decide what is important. Spending an evening on the town? Attending a ball game? Or learning something that can be with you your life long.

What is today accepted as truth will tomorrow prove to be only amusing.

Revenge could steal a man's life until there was nothing left but emptiness.

When I was a small boy I often went to the woods to lie on the grass in the shade. Somehow I had come to believe the earth could give me wisdom, but it did not. Yet I learned a little about animals and learned it is not always brave to make a stand. It is often foolish. There is a time for courage and a time for flight.

The key to understanding any people is in its art: its writing, painting, sculpture.