A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life, to be thankful for a good one.

When a wave of love takes over a human being... such an exaltation takes him that he knows he has put his finger on the pulse of the great secret and the great answer.

We cannot live without the Earth or apart from it, and something is shrivelled in a man's heart when he turns away from it and concerns himself only with the affairs of men

I do not understand how anyone can live without some small place of enchantment to turn to.

A woman never forgets the men she could have had; a man, the women he couldn't

It seems to me that the earth may be borrowed but not bought. It may be used but not owned. We are tenants, not possessors, lovers and not masters.

Fear is the most easily taught of all lessons, and the fight against terror, real or imagined, is perhaps the history of man's mind.

Cross Creek belongs to the wind and the rain, to the sun and the seasons, to the cosmic secrecy of seed, and beyond all, to time.

Ants in the house seem to be, not intruders, but the owners.

Readers themselves, I think, contribute to a book. They add their own imaginations, and it is as though the writer only gave them something to work on, and they did the rest.

No man should have proprietary rights over land who does not use that land wisely and lovingly.

He's like Super Librarian, y'know? Everyone forgets, Willow, that knowledge is the ultimate weapon.

The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.

I find virtue to be found amongst the farmers of the country alone, not about courts, where courtiers dwell.

Theater is a space where you cross over from everyday life, because there are real people in that moment moving in front of you-you're being invited to believe in a story and cross that bridge.

I see no reason to spend your life writing poems unless your goal is to write great poems.

Baseball reveals character; golf exposes it.

Poetical spaces too can be painted like a vase.

Republicans were more pro-choice than Democrats up until the late 1980s.

The better you are at surrounding yourself with people of high potential, the greater your chance for success.

I went through a really low period about 13 years ago, when all aspects of my career and everything went completely wrong.