The Cardinal ... It was as if a pulsing heart of flame passed by when he came winging through the orchard.

If you are lazy, and accept your lot, you may live in it. If you are willing to work, you can write your name anywhere you choose.

How a big majority of book critics and authors have come to believe and to teach that no book is true to life unless it is true to the worst in life, God knows.

I write as the birds sing, because I must, and usually from the same source of inspiration.

You cannot write on the heart of another what you do not feel yourself.

Nature can be trusted to work her own miracle in the heart of any man whose daily task keeps him alone among her sights, sounds and silences.

Be sure that you are right; and then go ahead.

Nature always levies her tribute.

The seasons run with swift feet.

there was nothing in the whole world so dreadful as the power of riches wrongly used.

In the economy of nature nothing is ever lost. I cannot belive that the soul of man shall prove the one exception

Forgiveness means that you are willing to give someone else a second chance to breathe in new life in his body. That is one of the greatest attribution of a Leader.

In my experience, telling someone to switch Unix shells for ease of use is like telling him to switch cigarette brands for his health.

To know where a thing is we must have found it.

Belief is a deception you play upon yourself.

I'm nothing if not honest.

The steam of meat darkens the light of the spirit...One hardly can have virtue when one enjoys meat meals and feasts.

We can be using the same kind of technology, the same kind of techniques, but when we use it, we get something different.

... a lively imagination can exercise itself most fully and creatively in conjuring up magnificent combinations.

Difficulties will assail you only when you lack in concentration and persistence.

The U.S. Treasury has got borrowing costs like nobody else has.