no army has ever marched into battle thinking that the Creator had sided with their enemy.

We can't live our lives according to what might have been. We have to live by what is.

We all can be only who we are, no more, no less.

If something is wrong, it matters not if a thousand men are for it; you must still oppose it. If something is just, no amount of popular outcry should stay you from your course.

There is nothing that exists that has only one side. Even a piece of paper, thin as it is, has two sides.

I often hear people say that they read to escape reality, but I believe that what they’re really doing is reading to find reason for hope, to find strength. While a bad book leaves readers with a sense of hopelessness and despair, a good novel, through stories of values realized, of wrongs righted, can bring to readers a connection to the wonder of life. A good novel shows how life can and ought to be lived. It not only entertains but energizes and uplifts readers.

Nothing marks a man's character better than his attraction to intelligence.