Nobody got anywhere in this world by simply being content.

Have faith in God but keep your powder dry.

Folks who talk about no violence are always the ones who are first to call a policeman and usually they are sure there is one handy.

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

Without books we should very likely be a still-primitive people living in the shadow of traditions that faded with years until only a blur remained, and different memories would remember the past in different ways. A parent or a teacher has only his lifetime; a good book can teach forever.Without books we should very likely be a still-primitive people living in the shadow of traditions that faded with years until only a blur remained, and different memories would remember the past in different ways. A parent or a teacher has only his lifetime; a good book can teach forever.

Strange how it was always the spoiled who weakened and cried first, and it was the injured, the maimed, the blind, and the poor who fought on alone.

Man needs so little... yet he begins wanting so much.