Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.

Don't worry about losing. If it is right, it happens - The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away.

The free exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world.

And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.

What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.

I believe a strong woman may be stronger than a man, particularly if she happens to have love in her heart. I guess a loving woman is indestructible.

When two people meet, each one is changed by the other so you've got two new people.

Writers are a little below clowns and a little above trained seals.

This I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual.

If you understand each other you will be kind to each other.

It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.

There are two things that interest me: the relation of people to each other, and the relation of people to land.

The greatest thing in style is to have a command of metaphor.

Life has played some funny tricks on me and taken me on a wild ride. How did I ever get into this wonderful mess that is my life?

We have not long to live in any event. Let us spend what is left in seeking the unpeopled world behind the sunrise.

Hope dead lives nevermore, No, not in heaven.

Well, I do listen to God for direction, but I really don't have time to listen to other artists all that much.

In the end, you can' t talk to everyone.

Every novel starts with a theme, and I am constantly looking for big ideas.

If Mozart were around now he would write a killer rock song.

Outdoors we are confronted everywhere with wonders; we see that the miraculous is not extraordinary, but the common mode of existence. It is our daily bread.