I don't see as it matters much how well you mean if it's harm you're doin'.

But one had to go back to the beginning of things, always. Trace the thread of life - find the knot - untangle it.

The lush green of the fields became a rich gold that swayed sturdily under the wind and fell at last before the hands of the reapers.

it was a sly trick of God's to give a man work to do - it kept him from asking questions that God couldn't answer.

By mid-morning a rain as fine as silk spills was weaving over the lake.

A false vision was better than none.

Ah, life, life, how madly, how cruelly it raced along your pulses!

There was nothing so real on the prairie as winter, nothing so memorable.

There is too much doing - too little being! When we begin to get strenuous, life begins to grow intolerable.

Time, designing slowly, swiftly; Time, destroying slowly, swiftly; Time holding, possessing the earth in its tender indifference.

The snow again. White, white net of beauty, net of dream, trapping the earth, trapping the helpless heart of life.

When the cats away, the mice will play.

It is time for us to come together as one united people.

You are my sun, my moon, and all my stars.

Til that the brighte sonne loste his hewe; For th'orisonte hath reft the sonne his lyght; This is as muche to seye as it was nyght!

I can't understand nothingness. I can't understand it and I can't imagine it.

Law never made men a whit more just; and, by means of their respect for it, even the well-disposed are daily made the agents of injustice.

I’ve been thinking,” he said. “Which is not an easy thing for a teacher to admit to.

I'm not a typical couturier, although I really respect them.

My only real insecurities in high school were having such long legs and thick hair — things I’m so very grateful for now.

Worrying about the dunya is a darkness in the heart, while worrying about akhirah is a light in the heart.