Even the revolutionary writer will err if he fails to grasp the enormous effectiveness of occasional understatement.

Nobody talks so constantly about God as those who insist that there is no God.

Sports do not build character. They reveal it.

People who come up through life or literature the hard way must inevitably carry their scars with them into composition.

Everybody favours free speech in the slack moments when no axes are being ground.

I do not see a necessary connection between proletarian literature and some set percentage of words which bring the blushes to a maiden's cheek.

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.

We stopped looking for monsters under our bed when we realized that they were inside us.

Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.

There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.

“Compassion for animals is intimately associated with goodness of character, and it may be confidently asserted that he who is cruel to animals cannot be a good man.

Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.

Our actions—whether they make peace or war—reverberate throughout this universe.

We don't set out to save the world; we set out to wonder how other people are doing and to reflect on how our actions affect other people's hearts.

There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do.