Our bodies can be mobilized by law and police and men with guns, if necessary-but where shall we find that which will make us believe in what we must do, so that we can fight through to victory?

there is one word that can be the guide for your life- it is the word reciprocity.

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.

For war to man, like childbirth to women, is simplifying in its emotions and activities. All the real problems of life can be put aside while the one thing is done and little thought is needed to do it. ... His hatreds can be expressed without censure, he can let his emotions run free, he can behave as dramatically, as heroically as he likes, and no one laughs at him. It is almost impossible for a man to behave heroically in the cool and ordinary times of peace. But in war anything is allowed him, he is praised and applauded and made much of, as women are excused and allowed for in pregnancy.

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

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

Man was lost if he went to a usurer, for the interest ran faster than a tiger upon him.