I did not look for her, because I was afraid of dispelling the mystery we attach to people whom we know only casually.

What goes out always returns

I cannot give you the formula for success but I can give you the formula for failure which is-try to please everybody.

Jesus as a concrete historical personality remains a stranger to our time, but His spirit, which lies hidden in His words, is known in simplicity, and its influence is direct.

Writing to me is a voyage, an odyssey, a discovery, because I'm never certain of precisely what I will find.

It is a great feeling to know that from a window I can go to books to cans of beer to past loves. And from these gather enough dream to sneak out a back door.

You have to perform at a consistently higher level than others. That's the mark of a true professional.

You are not loved when you are lovely, but when you are loved you are found to be lovely.

Death is imposed only on creatures, not their creations, and has therefore always appeared in art in a broken form: as allegory.

The right to have a slave implies the right in some one to make the slave; that right must be equal and mutual, and this would resolve society into a state of perpetual war.