We recognize that there are no trivial occurrences in life if we get the right focus on them.

Medicine has made all its progress during the past fifty years. ... How many operations that are now in use were known fifty years ago?-they were not operations, they were executions.

The humorous writer professes to awaken and direct your love, your pity, your kindness--your scorn for untruth, pretension, imposture....He takes upon himself to be the week-day preacher.

The difference between fiction and nonfiction is that fiction must be absolutely believable.

Now and then we had a hope that if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be pirates.

If it is a Miracle, any sort of evidence will answer, but if it is a Fact, proof is necessary

To believe yourself brave is to be brave; it is the one only essential thing.