The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it.

Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.

Happiness, not in another place but this place...not for another hour, but this hour.

We were together. I forget the rest.

Either define the moment or the moment will define you.

Re-examine all that you have been told... dismiss that which insults your soul.

Be curious, not judgmental.

Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes.

Simplicity is the glory of expression.

The truth is simple. If it was complicated, everyone would understand it.

When one reaches out to help another he touches the face of God.

Do not be sad that all odds are against you

Tell the readers a story! Because without a story, you are merely using words to prove you can string them together in logical sentences.

I was training to be an electrician. I suppose I got wired the wrong way round somewhere along the line.

Hell is paved with good intentions, not with bad ones. All men mean well.

Constant practice devoted to one subject often outdoes both intelligence and skill. - Assiduus usus uni rei deditus et ingenium et artem saepe vincit

(I must tell my Hon. Friend Miss Janet Fookes) that although I have always been attracted to her I have never actually dared ask her whether she would go to bed with me.

When your life is changed by Jesus, you are a new creature. God not only changes what you do, He also changes what you want to do.

The most improbable tales can be made believable, if your reader, through his sense, feels certain that he stands at the middle of events.

A great emigration necessarily implies unhappiness of some kind or other in the country that is deserted.

There is a hunger to see the human presence acted out. As long as that need remains, people will find a way to do theater.