It is difficult to restrain admirers of Shakespeare once they have begun to speak of him.

God made the world round so we would never be able to see too far down the road.

When you have a great and difficult task, something perhaps almost impossible, if you only work a little at a time, every day a little, suddenly the work will finish itself.

You know you are truly alive when you’re living among lions.

I start with a tingle, a kind of feeling of the story I will write. Then come the characters, and they take over, they make the story.

A visitor is a friend, he brings news, good or bad, which is bread to the hungry minds in lonely places. A real friend who comes to the house is a heavenly messenger, who brings the panis angelorum.

There are things which cannot be carried through even with the good will of everybody concerned

Of all the idiots I have met in my life, and the Lord knows they have not been few or little, I think that I have been the biggest.

Love the pride of the conquered nations, and leave them to honour their father and their mother.

Do you know a cure for me?""Why yes, " he said, "I know a cure for everything. Salt water.""Salt water?" I asked him."Yes, " he said, "in one way or the other. Sweat, or tears, or the salt sea.

Come now and let us go and risk our lives unnecessarily. For if they have got any value at all it is this that they gave got none. Frei lebt wer sterben kann.

There are two different categories of love. The first category is called a fairytale. The second category of love is called just another lesson

Give Bethod a kick from me, once you have him under your boot.""That I will, unless he gets me under his.""Never easy, kicking upwards.

Never believe on faith, see for yourself! What you yourself don't learn you don't know.

I've never professed to be anything but an average student.

You are getting too old for this. A man is as old as he feels, woman! And how old do you feel? About ninety.

Peace beings with a smile

It took me a very long time to heal. It was a shock to my system.

Americans will eat anything if it is toasted and held together with a couple of toothpicks and has lettuce sticking out of the sides, preferably a little wilted.

I took five years on the first volume, five years on the second volume, and ten years on the third volume.