A punch should stay like a treasure in the sleeve. It should not be used indiscrimately.

Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.

As rice grows riper, the lower it bows its head. Never lose your humility while you grow.

So there are many things outside of your control. Why not create positive control over the other things and add greater value to those?

No evil is honorable: but death is honorable therefore death is not evil.

I consider the Christian religion so important, [Jesus is] somebody I can totally rely on in my own mind.

I'll come back as soon as I can with as much as I can. In the meantime, you've got to hold!

I hear poets complaining: 'We face what our forebears did not face. We face TV. We face radio. We face this and that.'

I would, however, start writing fiction about 10 years before I actually did, because it's such great fun to do, many times more creative than nonfiction.

God has sent no one to this earth purposeless.

Which would you prefer? To be king of the mountain for a day? Or to be a child of God for eternity?