Forget the books you want to write. Think only of the book you are writing.

If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having.

Whatever there be of progress in life comes not through adaptation but through daring.

In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance.

A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition.

The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.

It is with the soul that we grasp the essence of another human being, not with the mind, nor even with the heart.

either you take in believing in miracles or you stand still like the hummingbird.

Chaos is the score upon which reality is written.

Art is only a means to life, the life more abundant. It merely points the way.

Man has demonstrated that he is master of everything - except his own nature.

It is easier to start a war than to end it.

The desire for high status is never stronger than in situations where "ordinary" life fails to answer a median need for dignity and comfort.

The real ladder of opportunity is ascending levels of consciousness.

Talent is the presence of ability and absence of understanding about the source and operation of knowledge.

Miss Gerhart, the last time I saw you, you had quite a mouthful to shout at me. You’re really quiet today. Cat got your tongue?

What people want, above all, is order.

you can love a person and still hate the decisions they've made, can't you?

In cricket, as in no other game, a great master may well go back to the pavilion scoreless.... In no other game does the law of averages get to work so potently, so mysteriously.

Death comes not to the living soul, nor age to the living heart.

Economists can certainly disappoint you. One said that the economy would turn up by the last quarter. Well, I'm down to mine and it hasn't.