The lonesomest thing in all the world is a soul when it is making ready to go on its mysterious, far journey.

Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.

My optimism wears heavy boots and is loud.

Fear is nature's warning signal to get busy.

There is no remedy for love but to love more.

Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.

Don't find fault, find a remedy.

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.

Coming together is a beginning keeping together is progress working together is success.

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the aeroplane takes off against the wind, not with it.

Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Successful people have libraries. The rest have big screen TVs.

People don't get to choose their family, but if you have the family you would choose - that's happiness.

...[D]espite the concoction's disgusting lecture, it's cleared every blemish from my face, as promised. I am a Buzzard-created beauty, head to toe.

To have read the greatest works of any great poet, to have beheld or heard the greatest works of any great painter or musician, is a possession added to the best things of life.

A dangerous quality, if real; and a not less dangerous one, if feigned.

I go to the club just like a normal person. I might go to the studio, but I go everywhere like a normal person would.

Study broadly and without fear.

Einstein was a giant. His head was in the clouds, but his feet were on the ground. But those of us who are not that tall have to choose!

What a lot of things I don't need.

In one of his books my father said, "Nothing vast enters the life of mortals without a curse."