Famous Quotes by Herman Wouk

“When in danger or in doubt, run in circles, scream and shout.”

A writer's life is the slow peeling of an onion, a layer at a time, until the thing is destroyed.

Human beings are not born once and for all the day their mothers give birth to them, but…life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.

The struggle to understand is one of the greatest gifts of life.

Only the dead have seen the end of war, but the living must work to understand its meaning.

The greatest crime of war is that it destroys minds and hearts even of those who survive it.

There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.

Some people think faith is a warm blanket; others know it is a cross to carry.

In every life, there comes the moment when the beloved illusions are all stripped away, and one must face truth or be forever defeated.

The course of a life can be changed with a single decision. We are always one decision away from a different life.

Some people are born with a sense of destiny; they feel there is something big awaiting them.

Life is a stormy sea; character is the anchor that will hold through the worst tempests.

Patience and fortitude conquer all things in the end.

Good books are friends, and they are sometimes better friends than human beings.

To survive, it is often necessary to fight and to fight you have to dirty yourself.

The only way to know the truth of a person is in the context of his or her life story.

History is full of people who rose to meet the challenges of their times. Every generation must do the same.

A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers.

Each of us has a particular duty to life, something that must be fulfilled before we go.

No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century.

Hope is an anchor, and hope is all we have to hold to in times of darkness.