I wrote "David" because it seemed to me that children, who can love a book more passionately than any grown person, got such a lot of harmless entertainment and not enough real, valuable literature.

You could not bribe honest people, but bad people would accept bribery.

Never let me hear you say it's someone else's fault. It often is, but you must never shirk your own responsibility ... You can't change others, but you can do something about a fault in yourself.

Joy passed, but happiness never completely disappeared; a touch of it would always remain to remind one it had been there. It was happiness that made one smile, then.

There's always something when you're at fault, too, and that fault you must discover and learn to recognize and take the consequences of it.

Being brave meant that though you might be frightened, you would face the greatest danger if you knew it was the right thing to do.

And it was most important to do what one knew was right, for otherwise the day might come when one could no longer tell the difference between right and wrong.

The angrier you were, the less likely you were to think clearly.

Sorrow has its life just like people. Sorrow is born and lives and dies. And when it's dead and gone, someone's left behind to remember it. Exactly like people.

God of the green pastures and the still waters, please don't help me. I want to do it by myself so that You'll know I've found something I can do for You ... I am David. Amen.

Angelo was a grown man, and here was one thing he was quite free to decide for himself, and yet he was ready to let others make up his mind for him...that could only be stupidity.

The goal of a great democracy should be fulfillment, not ease. It should be adequacy, not serenity.

I did not come into football to make money. I had already made millions.

You never know what you will learn till you start writing. Then you discover truths you never knew existed.

It is not enough to have the courage of your convictions, you must also have the courage to have your convictions challenged.

Life takes hold of us with strong hands and makes us greater than we thought.

You always feel when you look it straight in the eye that you could have put more into it, could have let yourself go and dug harder.

All big things are made up of trifles. My entire life has been built on trifles.

One easily bears moral reproof, but never mockery.

It is better to remain silent than to speak the truth ill-humoredly, and spoil an excellent dish by covering it with bad sauce.

I am happy to say that everyone that I have met in my life, I have gained something from them; be it negative or positive, it has enforced and reinforced my life in some aspect.