It is not enough to do, one must also become. I wish to be wiser, stronger, better. This--" I held out my hands "--this thing that is me is incomplete. It is only the raw material with which I have to work. I want to make it better than I received it.

There's no stopping a man who knows he's in the right and keeps a-coming.

Anger is a killing thing: it kills the man who angers, for each rage leaves him less than he had been before - it takes something from him.

There is no man more dangerous than one who does not doubt his own rightness.

To exist is to adapt, and if one could not adapt, one died and made room for those who could.

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.

I never figured it was a cowardly thing to be scared. It's to be scared and still face up to what scares you that matters.