Joseph Conrad

To have his path made clear for him is the aspiration of every human being in our beclouded and tempestuous existence.

In order to move others deeply we must deliberately allow ourselves to be carried away beyond the bounds of our normal sensibility.

How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a specter through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by its spectral throat?

Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.

James Bond is quite serious about his drinks and clothing and cigarettes and food and all that sort of thing. There is nothing wry or amused about James Bond.

Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience.