As every thread of gold is valuable so is every moment of time.

He played the king as if afraid someone else would play the ace.

A good conversationalist is not one who remembers what was said, but says what someone wants to remember.

Happiness consists in activity. It is a running stream, not a stagnant pool.

Nowhere are prejudices more mistaken for truth, passion for reason and invective for documentation than in politics.

No man, with a man's heart in him gets far on his way without some bitter, soul-searching disappointment. Happy is he who is brave enough to push on to another stage of the journey.

Charm is a glow within a woman which casts a most becoming light on others.

Reasoning with a child is fine, if you can reach the child's reason without destroying your own.

It is in the hard, hard rockpile labor of seeking to win, hold, or deserve a reader's interest that the pleasant agony of writing again comes in.

So often we rob tomorrow's memories by today's economies.

The purpose of writing is to hold a mirror to nature, but too much today is written from small mirrors in vanity cases.

Freedom is the dream you dreamWhile putting thought in chains again --

Be an example

Up in that room I decided that I would write one story about each thing that I knew about. I was trying to do this all the time I was writing, and it was good and severe discipline.

All life is a blur of Republicans and meat.

Each person is an island unto himself, in a very real sense; and he can only build bridges to other islands if he is first of all willing to be himself and permitted to be himself.

The library is the temple of learning.

I haven't had that many women - only as many as I could lay my hands on.

It's very hard for me to relax.

Is it not wonderful news to believe that salvation lies outside ourselves?

I've got to find local farmers and get natural foods.