Life is seldom as unendurable as to judge by the facts it logically ought to be.

Land was created to provide a place for boats to visit.

Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past. Let it go, for it was imperfect, and thank God that it can go.

Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.

It seems not to have been written. It is the quintessence of life. It is the basic truth.

In every age 'the good old days' were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time. For every age has consisted of crises that seemed intolerable to the people who lived through them.

Bureaucracies are designed to perform public business. But as soon as a bureaucracy is established, it develops an autonomous spiritual life and comes to regard the public as its enemy.

Poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge.

Say "Yes" to the seedlings and a giant forest cleaves the sky. Say "Yes" to the universe and the planets become your neighbors. Say "Yes" to dreams of love and freedom. It is the password to utopia.

The virtue of the camera is not the power it has to transform the photographer into an artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on looking.

Every man with an idea has at least two or three followers.

The opposite of love is not hate, its apathy, when you simply don't bother about that person!

Life is very nice, but it has no shape. The object of art is actually to give it some ..." Jean Anouilh, The Rehearsal

The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so.

Beauty, alone, may please, not captivate; if lacking grace, 'tis but a hookless bait.

When you have spent too much time with something, you may lose sight of what's marvelous about it.

In every community, whether large or small, there are people who lead in their community in easy and difficult times.

I think a lot of young aspiring writers get misdirected; they think 'I ought to write this, even though I enjoy reading that'. What you have to do is write what you enjoy reading.

Years bleach away the sense of things until all that's left is a bone-white past, stripped of feeling and significance.

We don't want to keep secrets anymore.

Only an open mind is big enough to contain the secrets of the universe.