Life is a process of one goneness after another.

There must be a lot of people in the world being wondered about by people who don't see them anymore.

Language is an archaeological vehicle... the language we speak is a whole palimpsest of human effort and history.

After all, when you come right down to it, how many people speak the same language even when they speak the same language?

Words have a life; without response they die.

But when I don't smoke I scarcely feel as if I'm living. I don't feel as if I'm living unless I'm killing myself.

Nothing to be done really about animals. Anything you do looks foolish. The answer isn't in us. It's almost as if were put here on earth to show how silly they aren't.

When you suffer an attack of nerves you're being attacked by the nervous system. What chance has a man got against a system?.

The things that matter don't necessarily make sense.

Explorers have to be ready to die lost.

An idea is an eye given by God for the seeing of God. Some of these eyes we cannot bear to look out of; we blind them as quickly as possible.

If you are not happy with the work you do, change it

When you are innocently covered by sorrow, It shall be turned into joy.

In morals, what begins in fear usually ends in wickedness; in religion, what begins in fear usually ends in fanaticism. Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is the beginning of all evil.

Most rich people are the poorest people I know.

Strong leaders equal strong organizations.

In the pleading of cases nothing pleases so much as brevity.

When you are reading a book in a dark room, and come to a difficult part, you take it to a window to get more light. So take your Bibles to Christ.

The times when we need prayers or counsel, we are little like to be in a mood to learn, nor yet to understand.

Weave, weave the sunlight in your hair-

If you want to know how rich you really are, find out what would be left of you tomorrow if you should lose every dollar you own tonight.