Above all avoid taking the advice of men who have no brains and do not know what they are talking about.

Dare to be strong and courageous. That is the road. Venture anything.

The object of art is not to make salable pictures. It is to save yourself.

The lives of people are like young trees in a forest. They are being choked by climbing vines. The vines are old thoughts and beliefs planted by dead men.

You won’t arrive. It is an endless search.

There is within every human being a deep well of thinking over which a heavy iron lid is kept clamped.

I think the whole glory of writing lies in the fact that it forces us out of ourselves and into the lives of others.

The thing of course, is to make yourself alive. Most people remain all of their lives in a stupor.

I go about looking at horses and cattle. They eat grass, make love, work when they have to, bear their young. I am sick with envy of them.

It was a cold day but the sun was out and the trees were like great bonfires against gray distant fields and hills.

The whole object of education is...to develop the mind. The mind should be a thing that works.

To reach the pinnacle of your writings potential

Summertime is a period for youthful explorations, a joyful time when we learn lessons without grand expectations or harsh consequences.

Sometimes, in the middle of the night, I’ll wake up with sweat drenching my chest and think it’s the blood and muck I was covered in that night.

When I break any of the chains that bind me I feel that I make myself smaller.

Men and women succeed because they find a field of endeavor that matches their interests and abilities.

My dream is to be on my boat. Or on an island. Or in my house in the country. That's my dream.

[The adoption of the Constitution] will demonstrate as visibly the finger of Providence as any possible event in the course of human affairs can ever designate it.

I love the idea of working with women because I always feel like a man designing womenswear needs women around him to really have a sense of what they're doing.

It's harder to be kind than clever

It must be recognized that the real truths of history are hard to discover. Happily, for the most part, they are rather matters of curiosity than of real importance.