Nothing gives quite the satisfaction that doing things brings.

Dare to be strong and courageous. That is the road. Venture anything.

The object of art is not to make salable pictures. It is to save yourself.

The lives of people are like young trees in a forest. They are being choked by climbing vines. The vines are old thoughts and beliefs planted by dead men.

You won’t arrive. It is an endless search.

There is within every human being a deep well of thinking over which a heavy iron lid is kept clamped.

I think the whole glory of writing lies in the fact that it forces us out of ourselves and into the lives of others.

The thing of course, is to make yourself alive. Most people remain all of their lives in a stupor.

I go about looking at horses and cattle. They eat grass, make love, work when they have to, bear their young. I am sick with envy of them.

It was a cold day but the sun was out and the trees were like great bonfires against gray distant fields and hills.

The whole object of education is...to develop the mind. The mind should be a thing that works.

The thought of being with Shay Wilder makes me want to gouge my eyes out with a butter knife

He who corrects an arrogant man earns insult

Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.

It is the "try" that is more often counted for righteousness and not the success or failure.

Religious superstitions more than all other influences put together cripple & enslave woman, but so long as women themselves do not see it & hug their chains, we have a great educational work to do.

Some people have a peculiar faculty for denying facts.

The inner life of any great thing will be incomprehensible to me until I develop and deepen an inner life of my own.

If this be treason, make the most of it!

I never get the accountants in before I start up a business. It's done on gut feeling, especially if I can see that they are taking the mickey out of the consumer.

All of life in its complexity and beauty is forever minted in the gold of words.