It's terrible to realize that you don't learn how to live until you're ready to die; and, then it's too late.

Big doesn't necessarily mean better. Sunflowers aren't better than violets.

We no longer build fireplaces for physical warmth—we build them for the warmth of the soul; we build them to dream by, to hope by, to home by.

The goat's business is none of the sheep's concern.

Writers should be read but not seen. Rarely are they a winsome sight.

A closed mind is a dying mind.

Living the past is a dull and lonely business; looking back strains the neck muscles, causing you to bump into people not going your way.

It was part of theTexas ritual? We know about champagne and caviar but we talk hog and hominy.

There are only two kinds of people in the world that really count. One kind's wheat and the other kind's emeralds.

Funny, isn't it, how your whole life goes by while you think you're only planning the way you're going to live it?

The feminine in the man is the sugar in the whisky. The masculine in the woman is the yeast in the bread. Without these ingredients the result is flat, without tang or flavor.

Why did everyone like that story so much when it wasn't true? Why was everyone so eager to believe it? Was it because, in real life, ever after's generally stink?

Serious literature does not exist to make life easy but to complicate it.

Your mind is the most powerful thing in your control.

What is man's ultimate direction in life? It is to look for love, truth, virtue, and beauty.

And as long as people have problems, the blues can never die.

Live only for today, and you ruin tomorrow.

It looked like something the Hemlock needed, or a piece of equipment a plumber had left behind. It looked like none of your business.

Professionals have to decide on which subjects they are prepared to give nagging rights

Sometimes success needs interruption to regain focus and shake off complacency.

When we love, it is not necessary to understand what is happening outside, because everything happens inside us instead.