Faith is a never-ending pool of clarity, reaching far beyond the margins of consciousness. We all know more than we know we know.

The condition of leadership adds new degrees of solitariness to the basic solitude of mankind. Every order that we issue increases the extent to which we are alone, and every show of deference which is extended to us separates us from our fellows.

For what human ill does dawn not seem to be alternative?

The highest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude.

The future author is one who discovers that language, the exploration and manipulation of the resources of language, will serve him in winning through to his way.

The test of an adventure is that when you're in the middle of it, you say to yourself "Oh now I've got myself into an awful mess; I wish I were sitting quietly at home. And the sign that something's wrong with you is when you sit quietly at home wishing you were out having lots of adventure.

Imprisonment of the body is bitter; imprisonment of the mind is worse