Without heroes we are all plain people and don't know how far we can go.

Without heroes, we are all plain people and don't know how far we can go.

There comes a time in a man's life when to get where he has to go - if there are no doors or windows he walks through a wall.

First drafts are for learning what your story is about.

Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.

Teach yourself to work in uncertainty.

Life is a tragedy full of joy.

The purpose of freedom is to create it for others.

The wild begins where you least expect it, one step off your normal course

We can't all be friends and relatives as the world is; most of us have to be strangers.

The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology.

There's a little bit of magic in every box!

Choose those you give your trust to carefully. Be caring

In a civilization like ours, I feel that everyone has to come to terms with the claims of Jesus Christ upon his life, or else be guilty of inattention or of evading the question.

Theology is simply that part of religion that requires brains.

The fault finder will find faults even in paradise and thereby miss the joys that recognition of the positives bring.

Pride, anger, gluttony, and idleness are sometimes conquered, but the conversion of a malicious and envious mind is a kind of miracle.

Keep out of this," Lucian said. "I'm not smiting anybody." "You're showing mercy." Catch-a-Tick nodded. "That's heroic, too. But not as good as smiting.

The days are too short even for love; how can there be enough time for quarreling?

To find a friend one must close one eye. To keep him...two.

Quite simply the Games are the biggest opportunity sport in this country has ever had. It is one that we must not squander.