I lifted him out. I held him. I held that half of him.

When we will learn to emulate the peacefulness of a tree, love of a flower, the earth will be a garden of love and peace.

Believe in yourself even when others doubt your capabilities.

The Fed is totally open.

To a certain extent I imagine a play is completely finished in my mind - in my case, at any rate - without my knowing it, before I sit down to write.

We don't think about pilgrimage in this country. We don't think about meditation. The idea of taking a six-week walk is totally foreign to most Americans. But it's probably exactly what we need.

Busy idleness urges us on.

A traveler's chief aim should be to make men wiser and better, and to improve their minds by the bad-as well as good example of what they deliver concerning foreign places.

Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any address on it?

I wear weird things sometimes. I like to drink coffee. Neither of those things have anything to do with who I am.

We have peace with God as soon as we believe, but not always with ourselves. The pardon may be past the prince's hand and seal, and yet not put into the prisoner's hand.