“One cannot take a coward on dangerous missions or trust ones fortune to a fool. How then are cowards and fools to be employed?”

“A woman stood in front of her with the peculiar poise that comes before the discovery of age and after the loss of innocence.”

“A man who never makes mistakes has long since ceased to do anything new. A man who is always making mistakes is a doomed man with swollen ambitions. But he who judiciously salts success with mistak...”

“He had the beginning of wrinkles and the easy manner of one who has already made his mistakes.”

“Tradition is a set of solutions for which we have forgotten the problems. Throw away the solution and you get the problem back. Sometimes the problem has mutated or disappeared. Often it is still t...”

“Contradictions do not perplex the logician. They arise because there are more rules to an open game than can be known.”

“Without meaningful work you might as well be dead.”

“One redeeming feature of human beings is that we must work to sustain our survival. Working attaches people to reality; it creates a survival identity, and provides structure to our life. Work prov...”

“What am I living for and what am I dying for are the same question.”

“I am older than you. Believe me, there is no other way to live on earth. Men are not open to truth or reason. They cannot be reached by a rational argument. The mind is powerless against them. Yet ...”

“The relationship between truth and reason:"Truth cannot be reached by reason alone!”

“I writeNotFor the sake of gloryNot For the sake of fameNotFor the sake of successBut for the sake of my soul”