Conversation's got to have some root in the past, or else you've got to explain every remark you make, an' it wears a person out.

Tact is after all a kind of mind reading.

Look bravely up into the sky, And be content with knowing That God wished for a buttercup Just here, where you are growing.

My childhood is very vivid to me, and I don't feel very different now from the way I felt then. It would appear I am the very same person, only with wrinkles.

A story should be managed so that it should suggest interesting things to the reader instead of the author's doing all the thinking for him, and setting it before him in black and white.

The growth of true friendship may be a lifelong affair.

I've found that people who look at things as they are, and not as they wish them to be, are the ones who succeed.

It seems to me like stealing, for men and women to live in the world and do nothing to make it better.

When she walked...she stretched out long and thin like a little tiger, and held her head high to look over the grass as if she were treading the jungle.

The warm sun kissed the earthTo consecrate thy birth,And from his close embraceThy radiant faceSprang into sight,A blossoming delight.

In the life of each of us there is a place remote and islanded, and given to endless regret or secret happiness.

If I could sum it up in 50 words, I wouldn't have needed to write a whole novel about it.

There is nothing humble about this woman.

Faith is a firm hope.

Not a sentence or a word is independent of the circumstances under which it is uttered.

For comprehensive Earth action, an all-of-the-Earth representative democracy is required. That is, a global parliament.

I had always been led to believe that ageing was a slow and gradual process, the creep of a glacier. Now I realise that it happens in a rush, like snow falling off a roof.

My definition of stupid is wasting your opportunity to be yourself because I think everybody has a uniqueness and everybody's good at something.

It is perfectly easy to be original by violating the laws of decency and the canons of good taste.

Let your air be that of a winner, a man who is resolved to make his way in the world, to make himself stand for something.

We cannot build the future by avenging the past.