A human being: an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing.

There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.

All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful: but the beauty is grim.

Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water.

No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does.

When you sell a man a book, you don't sell him 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life.

There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning.

High heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.

There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.

April prepares her green traffic light and the world thinks Go.

A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.

The constrained body knows and values the freedom of the mind.

Poetry is simply the most beautiful impressive and widely effective mode of saying things.

One can only display complex information in the mind. Like seeing, movement or flow or alteration of view is more important than the static picture, no matter how lovely.

The world is a mirror for us – whatever you say about others is really how you feel about yourself.

My tunnel vision allows me to have a longer work day than most writers. I'm thankful for that.

Light can penetrate any amount of darkness but no amount of darkness can penetrate light.

People are hungry for God. Do you see that? Quite often we look but do not see. We are all passing through this world. We need to open our eyes and see.

Harry Truman proves that old adage that any man can become President of the United States.

I don't want to earn a living. I want to live.

The dead are all holy, even they that were base and wicked while alive. Their baseness and wickedness was not they, was but the heavy and unmanageable environment that lay round them.