What you must accept is that your life is not going to be the same while you are writing.

In dealing with a man who thinks you are a fool, it is good sometimes to remind him that you know what he knows but have chosen to appear foolish for the sake of peace.

There is that great proverb — that until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter.

Nobody can teach me who I am. You can describe parts of me, but who I am - and what I need - is something I have to find out myself.

People say that if you find water rising up to your ankle, that's the time to do something about it, not when it's around your neck.

Become familiar with your home, but know also about your neighbors. The young man who never went anywhere thinks his mother is the greatest cook.

The damage done in one year can sometimes take ten or twenty years to repair.

When brothers fight to death a stranger inherit their father’s estate

If you only hear one side of the story, you have no understanding at all.

One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.

As long as one people sit on another and are deaf to their cry, so long will understanding and peace elude all of us.

Real? What is real? And tell me, what importance does reality have anyway? Did you learn from the experience? Now, that is important!

Death, the beginning of eternal things, is only the end of earthly cares. -Priest

One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is, I think, to have a happy childhood.

Now I say I'm a diarist with an explanation I'll get back to you on. Someday I may try and write in memoir form.

Hoeing in the garden on a bright, soft May day, when you are not obligated to, is nearly equal to the delight of going trouting.

Since the primitive times, the wealth of the popes was exposed to envy, their powers to opposition, and their persons to violence.

Billy copied Casey to a 'T.'

The repose of nations cannot be secure without arms, armies cannot be maintained without pay, nor can the pay be produced without taxes

Hope is a pocket of possibility. I'm holding it in my hand.

Soft pity enters an iron gate.