The worst days of darkness through which I have ever passed have been greatly alleviated by throwing myself with all my energy into some work relating to others.

The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.

Poverty is uncomfortable; but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and compelled to sink or swim.

A brave man is a man who dares to look the Devil in the face and tell him he is a Devil.

If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

I never meet a ragged boy in the street without feeling that i may owe him a salute, for I know not what possibilities may be buttoned up under his coat.

If wrinkles must be written on our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old.

I love agitation and investigation and glory in defending unpopular truth against popular error.

Ideas are the great warriors of the world, and a war that has no idea behind it, is simply a brutality.

The return to solid values is always hard... Distress, panic, and hard times have marked our pathway in returning to solid values.

If there is one thing upon this earth that mankind love and admire better than another, it is a brave man, - it is the man who dares to look the devil in the face and tell him he is a devil.

Left alone, human beings are a plague. They multiply relentlessly, consuming every resource, destroying everything they touch.

I don't like to say 'dork' and 'nerd' and things like that because I think that everyone is cool in their own right.

Fortune is for all, judgment is theirs who have won it for themselves.

I have some sarcastic sides of me.

And the ones who would not make war? Can they stop it?

I'm very lucky to be able to do what I love to do, and I hope I can keep doing it for a while.

But the God of the Bible is not only One, but the only possible One.

Wouldn't it be dreadful to live in a country where they didn't have tea?

I don't mean to cast a dark shadow on all your hopes and dreams, except of course I do, because that is who I am. I'm a dream ruiner.

When I read books it's to escape. It's so I don't have to talk to people.