Of bird and prophet and his light shall lead On through the darkness to eventual light, To undiscovered wealth, to newer need . . .

It is much more exquisite to be blown from the tree as a flower than to be shaken down as a shriveled and bitter fruit.

No one can ever help loving anyone.

Forgetting is the cost of living cheerfully.

Nothing seems so tragic to one who is old as the death of one who is young, and this alone proves that life is a good thing.

It's all right to tell a wife the brutal truth, but you've got to go sort of easy with your lady-love.

Even the great can have only their own sort of greatness.

Work alone qualifies us for life.

To accuse is so easy that it is infamous to do so where proof is impossible!

Shutting one's eyes is an art, my dear. I suppose there's no use trying to make you see that - but that's the only way one can stay married.

Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult.

There is no honor in seeking praise for doing that which is expected of you.

One's spiritual realization lies in none other than how one walks among and interacts with one's fellow beings.

I try to keep all my novels in print. Sometimes publishers don't agree with me as to their worth.

Systematic change requires a willingness to look on change as an opportunity.

I don't have to be concerned about everybody else's character.

Do not say, 'It is morning,' and dismiss it with a name of yesterday. See it for the first time as a newborn child that has no name.

And if the professional rapist is to be separated from the average dominant heterosexual (male), it may be mainly a quantitative difference.

My programming language was solder.

Color is the keyboard. The eye is the hammer. The soul is the piano, with its many strings.