The unsuccessful person neither thinks nor acts

If we obey God, the more we shall know his goodness.

I hated being a novelist when I was 20 - I had nothing to write about.

No matter where you are in life . . . [y]ou always have a choice and the choice can be power.

I believe the history of American music is just as important as anything political because it's changed generations of people.

Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.

There is an alchemy of quiet malice by which women can concoct a subtle poison from ordinary trifles.

Today is the most important day of our lives.

Gone, but not forgotten.

The next stage of development, perhaps in the distant future, will be a social order under which there will be no need for the coercive power of the state.