I had a terror-since September -I could tell to none-and so I sing, as the Boy does by the Burying Ground-because I am afraid.

Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tunes without the words - and never stops at all.

I am out with lanterns, looking for myself.

We turn not older with years but newer every day.

I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven.

If you take care of the small things, the big things take care of themselves. You can gain more control over your life by paying closer attention to the little things.

I must go in, the fog is rising.

A good roommate may be the single most important thing to have when one is away at school.

Bring me the sunset in a cup.

Saying nothing... sometimes says the most.

Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.

Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing.

the past is only the future with the lights on.

Any similarity between existing people and certain characters in this book is due solely to insight into human nature.

There are two kinds of travel: first class and with children.

Adverbs is a book about love, and I thought that was pretty cheerful, but people who are reading it now are telling me that it's actually quite dark.

Only the believer obeys — obedience follows faith, the way good fruit comes from a good tree. Only the obedient believe.

Ethics, as has been well said, are the finest fruits of humanity, but they are not its roots

Meditation is the freeing of ourselves from all mental states and concepts of self.

If Art relates itself to an Object, it becomes descriptive, divisionist, literary.

Nothing gets a bigger laugh than when you refer to things like ethics or human rights.