An ocean without unnamed monsters would be like sleep without dreams.

Don't worry about losing. If it is right, it happens - The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away.

Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.

The free exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world.

And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.

What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.

I believe a strong woman may be stronger than a man, particularly if she happens to have love in her heart. I guess a loving woman is indestructible.

When two people meet, each one is changed by the other so you've got two new people.

Writers are a little below clowns and a little above trained seals.

This I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual.

If you understand each other you will be kind to each other.

All books are judged by their covers until they are read.

Dictators ride to and fro on tigers from which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.

The race to which we belong is the most arrogant and rapacious the most exclusive and indomitable in history. All other races have been its enemies or its victims.

Let men see, let them know, a real man, who lives as he was meant to live.

All liars ... lie to protect themselves, to shield their egos from the raw pain of truth.

Branch Rickey made me a better man.

Compared to gardeners, I think it is generally agreed that others understand very little about anything of consequence.

I am more important than my problems.

The fish in the water is silent, the animals on the earth is noisy, the bird in the air is singing. But man has in him the silence of the sea, the noise of the earth and the music of the air.

He that leaveth nothing to chance will do few things ill, but he will do very few things.