Sinclair Lewis

"We are afraid of each other because we don't know each other and we don't know each other because we are separated from each other."

"One cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war."

"The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another."

"All geniuses are conceited."

"Time is the most valuable commodity. Don't spend it on those who don't deserve it."

"In his chemistry laboratory, he found not just formulas but metaphors for life."

"Money is not evil. The evil lies in the desire to get money for the wrong reasons."

"Health is a state of mind as much as a state of the body."

"Adventure is not something you search for; it finds the man who is willing to be found."

"The only way to do great work is to stop caring what others think of you."

"Our American dream has been narrowed by the very people who claimed to protect it."

"Kindness is the one thing in the world that cannot be counterfeited."

"History is more or less bunk. It's tradition. We don't want tradition."

"The most noble art is the art of living well."

"Patience is not passive; it is the active persistence of hope."

"Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine it, and then you make it real."

"A grateful heart is a magnet for miracles."

"Technology is not made to replace human touch, but to enhance it."

"The death of a dream is often the birth of a greater dream."

"Humor is the beginning of wisdom. It means you can laugh at yourself."

"Education should produce men who think rather than men who merely know."

"In nature, there are no coincidences, only patterns we haven't yet understood."

"Music is the one language that all men understand."

"A family is a place where you are accepted, even at your worst."

"Peace begins not with armies, but with understanding between people."

"The man who says it can't be done is usually interrupted by the man who does it."

"Love is not what we feel; it is what we do."

"Dreams are the rehearsal for the lives we're going to live."

"Hope is the thing with feathers that keeps us going when everything else fails."

"Strength is not found in the absence of fear, but in moving forward despite it."