“A conservative is one who admires radicals centuries after they're dead.”

“I came to believe it not true that "the coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave man only one." I think it is the other way around: It is the brave who die a thousand deaths.For it is imagination, and not just conscience, which doth make cowards of us all. Those who do not know fear are not truly brave.”

“Anybody who hates dogs and babies can't be all bad.”

“I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong.”

“People say: idle curiosity. The one thing that curiosity cannot be is idle.”

“Happiness, in the ancient, noble sense, means self-fulfillment—and is given to those who use to the fullest whatever talents God … bestowed upon them.”

“Proverbs often contradict one another, as any reader soon discovers. The sagacity that advises us to look before we leap promptly warns us that if we hesitate we are lost; that absence makes the heart grow fonder, but out of sight, out of mind.”