Sneezes ... always sound much louder to the sneezer than to the hearers. It is an acoustical peculiarity.

To think of losing is to lose already.

It is best as one grows older to strip oneself of possessions, to shed oneself downward like a tree, to be almost wholly earth before one dies.

... possessiveness cannot accept; it cannot even strike a fair bargain; it has to confer.

The fatal flaw of gravity; when you are down, everything falls down on you.

Spring is strictly sentimental, self-regarding; but I burn more careless in the autumn bonfire.

Inflation is the senility of democracies.

cooking is the most succulent of human pleasures.

One cannot overestimate the power of a good rancorous hatred on the part of the stupid. The stupid have so much more industry and energy to expend on hating. They build it up like coral insects.

Truth has beauty, power, and necessity.

Idleness is righteous if it is comfortable. Uncomfortable idleness is sin & sinful waste.

The world has been printing books for 450 years, and yet gunpowder still has a wider circulation. Never mind! Printer's ink is the greater explosive: it will win.

It paid barely a living wage, but he stayed with it—gradually and in the end gratefully arriving at the point in life when you understand there are no great changes ahead.

Never put a sock in a toaster.

We don't even realize something is broken until someone else shows us a better way

I'd love to play a full-out rocking chick.

It's not what happens to us that defines us. It's what we choose to do with what happens to us that defines us.

Craftsmanship names an enduring, basic human impulse, the desire to do a job well for its own sake.

The light of truth burns without a flicker in the depths of a house that is shaken with storms of passion and fear.

No one in this country has any root anywhere; we don't live in America, we board here, we are like spiders that run over the surface of the water.

We need to help younger people recognize their own capacity to do good, and help them discover the rewards of generosity.