So instead of getting to Heaven, at last - I’m going, all along.

Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tunes without the words - and never stops at all.

I am out with lanterns, looking for myself.

We turn not older with years but newer every day.

I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven.

If you take care of the small things, the big things take care of themselves. You can gain more control over your life by paying closer attention to the little things.

I must go in, the fog is rising.

A good roommate may be the single most important thing to have when one is away at school.

Bring me the sunset in a cup.

Saying nothing... sometimes says the most.

Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.

stand often in the company of dreamers: they tickle your common sense & believe you can achieve things which are impossible.

Do each daily task the best we can act as though the eye of opportunity were always upon us.

I take complete and sole responsibility for my present situation.

Government planning always involves compulsion.

This argument has been codified in the twentieth century as meritocracy, in which those on top in the process of capitalist accumulation have merited their position.

I would be humiliated if I found out that anything I did actually became a commercial success.

It is only the most elite of elite musicians whose unconventional approach becomes convention.

Are great things ever done smoothly? Time, patience, and indomitable will must show.

The celestial bodies are the cause of all that takes place in the sublunar world.

Writers are the custodians of memory, and that's what this chapter is about: how to leave some kind of record of your life and of the family you were born into.