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

“The only reason for being a professional writer is that you can't help it.”

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

“The purpose of life is not to be happy—but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you lived at all.”