Be sure that you are right; and then go ahead.

If you are lazy, and accept your lot, you may live in it. If you are willing to work, you can write your name anywhere you choose.

How a big majority of book critics and authors have come to believe and to teach that no book is true to life unless it is true to the worst in life, God knows.

I write as the birds sing, because I must, and usually from the same source of inspiration.

You cannot write on the heart of another what you do not feel yourself.

Nature can be trusted to work her own miracle in the heart of any man whose daily task keeps him alone among her sights, sounds and silences.

Nature always levies her tribute.

The seasons run with swift feet.

there was nothing in the whole world so dreadful as the power of riches wrongly used.

In the economy of nature nothing is ever lost. I cannot belive that the soul of man shall prove the one exception

The wages of sin are the hardest debts on earth to pay, and they are always collected at inconvenient times and unexpected places.

I rely on one thing in this world:my actions. I will leave nothing to chance and prefer playing the game of life with thestrongest hand possible.

History is what scholars and conquerors say happened; story is what it was like to live on the ground.

Photography is not documentary, but intuition, a poetic experience.

Exactitude is not truth. [Fr., L'exactitude n'est pas la verite.]

It is true thrift to use the best ingredients available and to waste nothing.

I was voted the most beautiful girl in the world in 1958, and courted by every young, available man in Los Angeles, most of whom I didn't go out with, by the way.

Satiety comes of too frequent repetition and he who will not give himself leisure to be thirsty can never find the true pleasure of drinking

I think my life did go the way it was supposed to go for me.

Rock and roll is my religion.

It is impossible to comfort men's hearts with the love of God when their feet are perishing with cold.