The whole object of education is...to develop the mind. The mind should be a thing that works.

I had a world, and it slipped away from me. The War blew up more than the bodies of men....It blew ideas away.

I have seldom written a story, long or short, that I did not have to write and rewrite. There are single stories of mine that have taken me ten or twelve years to get written.

There is within every human being a deep well of thinking over which a heavy iron lid is kept clamped.

Dare to be strong and courageous. That is the road. Venture anything. Be brave enough to dare to be loved. Be something more than man or woman. Be Tandy.

There is a time in the life of every boy when he for the first time takes the backward view of life. Perhaps that is the moment when he crosses the line into manhood.

Dare to be strong and courageous. That is the road. Venture anything.