The phenomenon of war is its hermaphroditism: the principles of victory and of defeat inhabit the same body and the necessary opponent, enemy, is merely the bed they self-exhaust each other on.

The past is never dead. It’s not even past.

I will never lie again.

You don’t dare think whole even to yourself the entirety of a dear hope or wish let alone a desperate one else you yourself have doomed it.

I’d have wasted a lot of time and trouble before I learned that the best way to take all people, black or white, is to take them for what they think they are, then leave...

Unless you’re ashamed of yourself now and then, you’re not honest

No one is without Christianity, if we agree on what we mean by the word. It is every individual’s individual code of behavior, by means of which he makes himself a better human being than...

When my horse is running good, I don’t stop to give him sugar.

Women know more about words than men ever will. And they know how little they can ever possibly mean.

How often have I lain beneath rain on a strange roof, thinking of home.

Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world…would do this, it would change the earth.

Men have been pacifists for every reason under the sun except to avoid danger and fighting.

…the very old men […] believing that they had danced with her and courted her perhaps, confusing time with its mathematical progression, as the old do, to whom all the past is not a diminishing...

I lied,” I said. …”I know it,” he said.”Then do something about it. Do anything, just so it’s something.””I cant,” he said.”There aint anything to do? Not anything?””I didn’t say that,” Grandfather said. “I said...

I’m bad and I’m going to hell, and I don’t care. I’d rather be in hell than anywhere where you are.

If all the businesses in town are run like country businesses, You are going to have a country town

I know now that what makes a fool is an inability to take even his own good advice.

Only fools imply compliments. The wise man comes right out with it, point-blank. Imply criticism–unless the criticized isn’t within earshot.

The saddest thing about love, Joe, is that not only the love cannot last forever, but even the heartbreak is soon forgotten.

At one time I thought the most important thing was talent. I think now that — the young man or the young woman must possess or teach himself, train himself, in infinite patience, which is...

It’s like it ain’t so much what a fellow does, but it’s the way the majority of folks is looking at him when he does it.

So long as the deceit ran along quiet and monotonous, all of us let ourselves be deceived, abetting it unawares or maybe through cowardice…

The best fiction is far more true than any journalism.

Government was founded on the working premiss of being primarily an asylum for ineptitude and indigence.

Man the sum of his climatic experiences Father said. Man the sum of what have you. A problem in impure properties carried tediously to an unvarying nil: stalemate of dust and desire.

You can’t beat women anyhow and that if you are wise or dislike trouble and uproar you don’t even try to.