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

To disbelieve is easy; to scoff is simple; to have faith is harder.

Luck comes to a man who puts himself in the way of it. You went where something might be found and you found something, simple as that.

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

When I die, remember that what you knew of me is with you always. What is buried is only the shell of what was. Do not regret the shell, but remember the man. Remember the father.

I really learned how to write from Robert Louis Stevenson, Anthony Trollope, and de Maupassant.

To a fool time brings only age not wisdom.