There are many ways of breaking a heart. Stories were full of hearts broken by love, but what really broke a heart was taking away its dream -- whatever that dream might be.

When we know what we want to prove, we go out and find our facts. They are always there.

The best government in the world, the best religion, the best traditions of any people, depend upon the good or evil of the men and women who administer them.

the vicious result of privilege is that the creature who receives it becomes incapacitated by it as by a disease.

Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that is where I renew my springs that never dry up.

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.

In this unbelievable universe in which we live, there are no absolutes. Even parallel lines, reaching into infinity, meet somewhere yonder.