the ruder lecturers are, and the louder their voices, the more converts they make to their opinions.

The things that one most wants to do are the things that are probably most worth doing.

Really, trees are nearly as important as men, and much better behaved.

We're so busy resigning ourselves to the inevitable that we don't even ask if it is inevitable. We've got to have courage, to take our future into our hands. If the law is oppressive, we must change the law. If tradition is obstructive, we must break tradition. If the system is unjust, we must reform the system.

Those who prepare for war get it.

Why, why, when one writes, does a sort of shackle bind one's imagination? I become conscious of a deadening mediocrity, perhaps a form of mental cowardice, and I long to break free, to let my imagination take wings. It doesn't - yet.

it is the brevity of life which makes it tolerable; its experiences have value because they have an end.