Nobody knows what another person is thinking. They may imagine they do, but they are nearly always wrong.

I mean that success has come early. And that is dangerous. Always dangerous.

The longer the time that has elapsed, the more things fall into proportion. One sees them in their true relationship to one another.

Thought is yours only. Nobody can alter or influence the use you mean to make of it.

The eye is diverted from the real business, it is caught by the spectacular action that means nothing--nothing at all.

Males of all species are made for wooing females, and females typically choose among their suitors.

There's nothing more intoxicating than creating something from nothing. Creating something from yourself." Professor Piper

Trust no one, and let none believe.

Hold puppies, kittens, and babies anytime you get the chance.

The appeal of travel books is also the sense that you are different, an outsider, almost like the Robinson Crusoe or Christopher Columbus notion of being the first person in a new place.

I always work on the theory that the audience will believe you best if you believe yourself.

It seems like the Western genre has crept out of its casings during the last few years, and expanded to include books and movies we wouldn't originally have thought of as westerns.

You are as responsible for what you let happen as for the actions you share.

Lately, the world felt fragile, like a blown egg, as if it might shatter beneath a careless touch.

Mortification of the flesh has been held all the world over as a condition of spiritual progress.