Arrogance, pedantry, and dogmatism...the occupational diseases of those who spend their lives directing the intellects of the young.

While the novel-writer aims at an eminently natural method of transcription, the author of the short story adopts a very artificial one

If the bell of intolerance tolls for one, it tolls for all.

Live deep instead of fast.

Live deep instead of fast. I think this is what Thoreau meant.

A short story is simplification to the highest degree

The function of the Short Story is to be interesting, to convey vivid impressions, an therefore it must, to a degree, work with the evident and superficial thing

Flatulency today consists in saying simply in several different ways the same thing over and over again.

It takes a lot of strength to hold onto and care for the things we love, so why is it that god seems to have made humans unable to conjure up that degree of power and love?

Peace can only survive when fed peace.

Always try to be a little kinder than necessary.

Please your mother: just lie around upstairs and smoke some pot. Be a revolutionary.

An unschooled man who knows how to meditate upon the Lord has learned far more than the man with the highest education who does not know how to meditate.

God has landed on this enemy-occupied world in human form...The perfect surrender and humiliation was undergone by Christ: perfect because He was God, surrender and humiliation because He was man.

As children, we all live in a world of imagination, of fantasy, and for some of us that world of make-believe continues into adulthood.

All the most prominent Darwinists proclaim naturalistic philosophy when they think it safe to do so.

Women never have young minds. They are born three thousand years old.