[My stories were] an excuse for making pictures.

Kill the snake of doubt in your soul, crush the worms of fear in your heart and mountains will move out of your way.

There are hurts so deep that one cannot reach them or heal them with words.

I make money using my brains and lose money listening to my heart. But in the long run my books balance pretty well.

Nothing fine and noble will ever perish from the earth as long as there are hearts to remember.

... nothing ever dies that's worth remembering.

For yesterday and for all tomorrows, we dance the best we know

Kill the snake of doubt in your soul crush the worms of fear in your heart and mountains will move out of your way.

Duty performed gives clearness and firmness to faith, and faith thus strengthened through duty becomes the more assured and satisfying to the soul.

Be like nature—quiet, calm, loving, and persistent. Don’t hurry. Flowers will bloom.

And maps can really point to placesWhere life is evil now:Nanking. Dachau.

We do not content ourselves with the life we have in ourselves we desire to live an imaginary life in the minds of others and for this purpose we endeavor to shine.

In the real world as in dreams nothing is quite what it seems. -The Book of Counted Sorrows

Demand for grain in the world today is a more stable trend than demand for energy. Russia is a major grain exporter and can consolidate its positions

Suffering is always the effect of wrong thought in some direction. It is an indication that the individual is out of harmony with himself, with the Law of his being.

The modern city hardly knows a pure darkness or true silence anymore, nor does it know the effect of a single small light or that of a lonely distant shout.

Much in our lives is chance.

It's tough to stay married. My wife says no because she's tired then stays up and reads her book.