All loose things seem to drift down to the sea, and so did I.

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

Victory is not won in miles but in inches.

Today you can buy the Dialogues of Plato for less than you would spend on a fifth of whiskey, or Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire for the price of a cheap shirt. You can buy a fair beginning of an education in any bookstore with a good stock of paperback books for less than you would spend on a week's supply of gasoline.

A man can lose sight of everything else when he's bent on revenge, and it ain't worth it.

It is better to have no emotion when it is work. Do what needs to be done, and do it coolly.

Books are the building blocks of civilization, for without the written word, a man knows nothing beyond what occurs during his own brief years and, perhaps, in a few tales his parents tell him.