It is worse than folly... not to recognize the truth, for in it lies the tinder for tomorrow.

If you start to revise before you've reached the end, you're likely to begin dawdling with the revisions and putting off the difficult task of writing.

The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this: A human creature born abnormally, inhumanly sensitive.

Chinese are wise in comprehending without many words what is inevitable and inescapable and therefore only to be borne.

War is the most devastating endemic and epidemic disease the human race has to endure, and yet too little has been done to discover and eliminate its cause by intelligent early control.

The only real danger to our country is from within, that we forget our own power to be what we want to be.

Every event has had its cause, and nothing, not the least wind that blows, is accident or causeless.