I'm going to end up like one of those old weirdos who lives in a network of tunnels burrowed through trash - yet I do not fear this.

If you want to be proud of yourself, then do things in which you can take pride

A clear vision, backed by definite plans, gives you a tremendous feeling of confidence and personal power.

To find a mountain path all by oneself gives a greater feeling of strength than to take a path that is shown.

I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.

Desire outweighs footwork when it comes to crashing the glass

It could be argued that every age gets the comfort savagery writer it deserves.

Anyone can get a job, but do you have a purpose?

If you are in a bad relationship with anyone else, it is because you are in a bad relationship with yourself.

Always carry a notebook. And I mean always. The short-term memory only retains information for three minutes; unless it is committed to paper you can lose an idea for ever.

The summer demands and takes away too much. /But night, the reserved, the reticent, gives more than it takes

Let your Life be a garden of peace and your smile be a bloom of flowers.

You can start with nothing and still succeed. However, if you don't start you will never succeed.

She could have happily lived inside any nineteenth century novel.

There are no honest poems about dead women.

Real people do real things. A collective of a whole bunch of people who do things in their own locale, in their own neighborhoods - the sum is bigger than the parts, and the parts will grow.

… and so he tried to accept the ache in his heart as what Dr. Larch would call the common symptoms of normal life.

Be it unto you, even as you believe. In God's economy, we believe first and then see.

Do you see over yonder, friend Sancho, thirty or forty hulking giants? I intend to do battle with them and slay them.

He that condescended so far, and stooped so low, to invite and bring us to heaven, will not refuse us a gracious reception there.

A person who is discreet in speaking will be useful during the good times and will avoid punishment during the bad.