When one is grateful for something too good for common thanks, writing is less unsatisfactory than speech-one does not, at least, hear how inadequate the words are.

For a true writer each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment. He should always try for something that has never been done or that others have tried and failed. Then sometimes, with great luck, he will succeed.

In attempts to improve your character, know what is in your power and what is beyond it.

There is nothing more contagious on this planet than enthusiasm.

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

Once in a while you get shown the light in the stangest of places if you look at it right.

Without a dream to light your way, the world is a very dark place.

If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he next comes to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination.

States should have the right to enact... laws...particularly to end the inhumane practice of ending a life that otherwise could live.

Courage means going against majority opinion in the name of the truth.