Swimming for his life, a man does not see much of the country through which the river winds.

Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won't have to hunt for happiness.

Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear.

No one ever became great except through many and great mistakes.

Be inspired with the belief that life is a great and noble calling; not a mean and groveling thing that we are to shuffle through as we can, but an elevated and lofty destiny.

Books are delightful society. If you go into a room and find it full of books - even without taking them from the shelves they seem to speak to you, to bid you welcome.

Nothing that is morally wrong can be politically right.

Men are apt to mistake the strength of their feeling for the strength of their argument. The heated mind resents the chill touch and relentless scrutiny of logic.

I have known ninety-five of the world's great men in my time, and of these eighty-seven were followers of the Bible.

Justice delayed is justice denied.

National injustice is the surest road to national downfall.

Let us never know what old age is. Let us know the happiness time brings, not count the years.

The generation now coming out of Western schools is unable to distinguish good from bad. Even those words are unacceptable. This results in impaired thinking ability.

I don’t mind being alone either. The only problem is that if you’re always alone, you get lonely.

Surrealism is the magical surprise of finding a lion in a wardrobe, where you were 'sure' of finding shirts.

One must maintain a little bittle of summer, even in the middle of winter.

It made me think that everything was about to arrive - the moment when you know all and everything is decided forever.

Do you know what prayer is? It is not begging God for this and that. The first thing we have to do is to get you beggars to quit begging until a little faith moves in your souls.

I never thought that I would have love again, but it's amazing how the universe brings love to you.

It's very likely that graduates, current employees and retirees have some wonderful pieces of Deer Park history in their closets or garages.

In the summer of 2010, I had decided to get into film and TV writing, so I wrote scripts for six different ideas I had developed, and the pilot for True Detective was one of them.