Readers themselves, I think, contribute to a book. They add their own imaginations, and it is as though the writer only gave them something to work on, and they did the rest.

A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life, to be thankful for a good one.

When a wave of love takes over a human being... such an exaltation takes him that he knows he has put his finger on the pulse of the great secret and the great answer.

We cannot live without the Earth or apart from it, and something is shrivelled in a man's heart when he turns away from it and concerns himself only with the affairs of men

I do not understand how anyone can live without some small place of enchantment to turn to.

A woman never forgets the men she could have had; a man, the women he couldn't

It seems to me that the earth may be borrowed but not bought. It may be used but not owned. We are tenants, not possessors, lovers and not masters.

Fear is the most easily taught of all lessons, and the fight against terror, real or imagined, is perhaps the history of man's mind.

Cross Creek belongs to the wind and the rain, to the sun and the seasons, to the cosmic secrecy of seed, and beyond all, to time.

Ants in the house seem to be, not intruders, but the owners.

No man should have proprietary rights over land who does not use that land wisely and lovingly.

I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy.

At the door is at the door. Beware, there are wolves.

Every blessing, just like a coin, has two sides

As a general thing when a woman wears the pants in a family she has a good right to them.

Let me embrace thee sour adversity for wise men say it is the wisest course.

Do stop flirting with my husband," said Tessa. "I shall not," Magnus declared, "but I will pause briefly so that I may catch up on your news.

Abandon all hope, ye who enter here.

Time lost, as men may see, For nothing may recovered be.

It is every Indian's dream that J&K is happy & there is prosperity. We have to work for this, be it in power or not in power.

At one time, I was persuaded to want to make music, and people answered me that that was not possible.