Most people spend most of their days doing what they do not want to do in order to earn the right, at times, to do what they may desire.

He played the king as if afraid someone else would play the ace.

A good conversationalist is not one who remembers what was said, but says what someone wants to remember.

Nowhere are prejudices more mistaken for truth, passion for reason and invective for documentation than in politics.

No man, with a man's heart in him gets far on his way without some bitter, soul-searching disappointment. Happy is he who is brave enough to push on to another stage of the journey.

Charm is a glow within a woman which casts a most becoming light on others.

Reasoning with a child is fine, if you can reach the child's reason without destroying your own.

It is in the hard, hard rockpile labor of seeking to win, hold, or deserve a reader's interest that the pleasant agony of writing again comes in.

So often we rob tomorrow's memories by today's economies.

The purpose of writing is to hold a mirror to nature, but too much today is written from small mirrors in vanity cases.

Even when the facts are available, most people seem to prefer the legend, and refuse to believe the truth when it in any way dislodges the myth.

I carry the place around the world in my heart but sometimes I try to shake it off in my dreams

A poem is never finished, only abandoned.

You can make up your own story when you look at a photo.

We have no mom-and-pop oil rigs in Norway.

Our Western science, ever since the 17th century, has been obsessed with the notion of control, of man dominating nature. This obsession has led to disaster.

David Bentley has got balls - and plenty of them.

As you get more global warming, you should see an increase in the extremes of the hydrological cycle - droughts and floods and heavy precipitation.

I like not to feel that all my eggs are in one basket, or I get nervous.

When you're a plebeian you want success, and when you're successful you want to be a plebeian again

If a guy can't handle your natural hair, he's weak. Why waste time on someone like that?