"And if the great fear had not come upon me, as it did, and forced me to do my duty, I might have been less good to the people than some man who had never dreamed at all, even with the memory of so great a vision in me."

"I had a vision with which I might have saved my people, but I had not the strength to do it."

"Sometimes dreams are wiser than waking."

"My friend, I am going to tell you the story of my life, as you wish; and if it were only the story of my life I think I would not tell it; for what is one man that he should make much of his winters, even when they bend him like a heavy snow?"

"Success comes to a writer as a rule, so gradually that it is always something of a shock to him to look back and realize the heights to which he has climbed."

"Strength does not come from winning, but from knowing that the truest form of bravery is vulnerability."

"Bureaucracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism."

"No man has any natural authority over his fellow men."