Prayers for the condemned man will be offered on an adding machine. Numbers constitute the only universal language.

Only those who still have hope can benefit from tears.

Art Is a Way Out. Do not let life overwhelm you. When the old paths are choked with the débris of failure, look for newer and fresher paths. Art is just such a path. Art is distilled from suffering.

At college, and perhaps for a year afterwards, they had believed in literature, had believed in Beauty and in personal expression as an absolute end. When they lost this belief, they lost everything.

Let him ride a horse. He's a cowboy ain't he?

Numbers constitute the only universal language.

Every child, everywhere; in the whole world there was not one child who was not gravely, sweetly dancing.

Her sureness was based on the power to limit experience arbitrarily.

Like a dead man, only friction could make him warm or violence make him mobile.

Feeling is of the heart and nerves and the crudeness of its expression has nothing to do with its intensity.

He thought of how calm he was. His calm was so perfect that he could not destroy it even by being conscious of it.

Every thing that is done in the world is done by hope.

You never know the limit of a human being.

We don't have milk cows. People have so many stereotypes of people from where I come from - Oklahoma. We don't ride around in covered wagons, either.

Then one day I thought it would be wonderful to make a whole book, to make my text and my drawings together, and that's how I started doing children's books.

Can you imagine what it would be like to all of a sudden see another color that nobody else sees?

I have over 2 million followers now on Google Plus.

People voted for Donald Trump. They want to repeal and replace ObamaCare. And we will.

Never appeal to a man's 'better nature.' He may not have one. Invoking his self-interest gives you more leverage.

beautiful December grapes, blue as plums, every grape a little skinful of sweet, tasteless water

Rather than spend millions getting film stars, I am quite happy to be brand ambassador myself.