War begins like a pretty girl with whom every man wants to flirt and ends like an ugly old woman whose visitors suffer and weep.

The truth hurts like a thorn at first; but in the end it blossoms like a rose.

In times of distress strengthen your heart.

Ingratitude to man is ingratitude to God.

Strike the rock and the water will flow

The greater evil who is in-When both in wayward paths are straying? The poor sinner for the painOr he who pays for the sin?

The frontiers are not east or west north or south but wherever a man fronts a fact.

I'm terribly afraid of failure. When your identity is wrapped up in writing and you've written something that doesn't work, it's a tough pill to swallow.

we had such tremendous fun and much agony together for some years

A runner's stride is not perfectly efficient.

I thought it necessary to study history, even to study it deeply, in order to obtain a clear meaning of our immediate time.

It's one thing to have the attitude of enlightenment and another thing to act in an enlightened way, which is conduct or activity.

I've been a vegetarian for a while now and I try to give my body plenty of what it craves.

The truth is that love and power go together.