The world is very lovely, and it's very horrible--and it doesn't care about your life or mine or anything else.

Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are our own fears.

I have no gift of words, but I speak the truth.

Too much work and too much energy kill a man just as effectively as too much assorted vice or too much drink.

The masterless man . . . afflicted with the magic of the necessary words. . . . Words that may become alive and walk up and down in the hearts of the hearers.

Take everything you like seriously, except yourselves.

Humble because of knowledge; mighty by sacrifice.