“How little we know of what there is to know.”

Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.

Develop a built-in bullshit detector.

Critics are men who watch a battle from a high place then come down and shoot the survivors.

Where a man feels at home, outside of where he’s born, is where he’s meant to go.

There are worse places to be than on your own.

When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.

If the others heard me talking out loud they would think that I am crazy. But since I am not, I do not care.

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.

We would be together and have our books and at night be warm in bed together with the windows open and the stars bright.

Never confuse movement with action.

I’m not brave any more darling. I’m all broken. They’ve broken me.

The rain will stop, the night will end, the hurt will fade. Hope is never so lost that it can’t be found.

No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader.

There is no friend as loyal as a book.

Never delay kissing a pretty girl or opening a bottle of whiskey.

All thinking men are atheists.

I say there is no darkness but ignorance.

A small knowledge of human nature will convince us, that, with far the greatest part of mankind, interest is the governing principle; and that almost every man is more or less, under its influence.

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination

Have more than you show, Speak less than you know.

I would rather be ignorant than knowledgeable of evils.

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination

Have more than you show, Speak less than you know.

I would rather be ignorant than knowledgeable of evils.