Our difficulties of the moment must always be dealt with somehow, but our permanent difficulties are difficulties of every moment.

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important.

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.

If we really want to pray we must first learn to listen, for in the silence of the heart God speaks.

I learn a great deal by merely observing you, and letting you talk as long as you please, and taking note of what you do not say.

Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?

Finding a way to live the simple life is one of life's supreme complications.

April is the cruelest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire, stirring dull roots with spring rain.

The journey, Not the destination matters.

I hold strongly to this: that it is better to be impetuous than circumspect

We men of this age are rotten with book-lore and with a yearning for the past.

What seems different in yourself; that's the rare thing you possess. The one thing that gives each of us his worth, and that's just what we try to suppress. And we claim to love life.

Several incidents in my life have convinced me of spiritual interposition - of the promptings of some beneficent force outside ourselves, which tries to help us where it can.

Land is something one should never sell. It is the only thing left when all else is gone

I question not if thrushes sing, If roses load the air; Beyond my heart I need not reach When all is summer there.

A tan is the best accessory for any outfit!

I believed in realism, as summarized by John McCarthy's comment to the effect that if we worked really hard, we'd have an intelligent system in from four to four hundred years.

It is only when aggression is legitimate that one can expect prodigies of valour.

A boy is the only known substance from which a man can be made.