"Be sure you separate 'who you are' from 'what you have' and 'what you do'."

“If you tell children they are bad, that's what they believe they are--and that's probably what they will become.”

“The church doesn’t have a mission; there is a mission, and it has the church.”

“Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them.”

“I do a great deal of research. I don’t want anyone to say, ‘That could not have happened.’ It may be fiction, but it has to be true.”

“The real story of our times is seldom told in the horse-puckey-filled memoirs of dopey, self-serving presidents or generals, but in the outrageous, demented lives of guys like Lenny Bruce, Giordano Bruno, Scott Fitzgerald - and Paul Krassner. The burrs under society's saddle. The pains in the ass.”

“If right and left are competing to be the biggest victim, who is competing to be the government?”

“The war had made a man of him! It had coarsened him and hardened him. There was no other way to look at it. It had made him reach a point at which he would no longer stand unbearable things.”

Source : Ford Madox Ford, Graham Greene (1963). “The Bodley Head: Parade's end. Pt.2. No more parades. Pt.3. A man could stand up”

“Life by the yard is hard; by the inch it's a cinch. Decisions Determine Destiny.”