How can I know what I think till I see what I say?

Spoon feeding, in the long run, teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.

We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.

One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.

Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown

Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown. Through them we pass out into adventure and sunshine, to them, alas! we return.

I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.

Ideas are fatal to caste.

Pathos, piety, courage, they exist, but are identical, and so is filth. Everything exists, nothing has value.

The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.

One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.

When something seems wrong in your life, the only way to have resolution with it is to let it go. Trying to make it right keeps it wrong.

When we first hear [a] word, we start putting these associational hooks into it that make it easier to fish it back out at some later date.

He stopped and leaned against a pole and looked up at the deaf and swollen sky. It was a movement of dark shapes, a hurrying, a running.He closed his eyes. ("Hunger")

Hold your head high stick your chest out. You can make it. It gets dark sometimes but morning comes. ... Keep hope alive.

No matter how dark the moment, love and hope are always possible.

I love being around people who work with their hands, who do the hard things to keep our country going. They're just my kind of people.

Misty May was looking for a partner, I was looking to stay at home, and the beach just came calling.

Wake up and live. It's a fast world out there.

If you get to the top on your own, who'll take the picture?

It's not the events of our lives that shape us, but our beliefs as to what those events mean.