The wages of sin are the hardest debts on earth to pay, and they are always collected at inconvenient times and unexpected places.

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

The writer… begins in confusion and nothingness and writes his way into clarity.

Turn around? No. Keep going, it's the only way to make sure I don't end up going back and forth.

The funny thing about decisions based on signs or gut or visions is that they're usually nothing but noble outs. Just another way to sabotage yourself and keep your bigger life at bay.

Time falls on us, like rain, it falls like rain until we drown in it, and sometimes, it's like the drains overflow, and time just - pools up, it seeps, it gathers in the corners.

I think patriotism is never racism.

Those who have it stick with what brings it.

No one deserves his greater natural capacity nor merits a more favorable starting place in society.

This is the nature of going forward into being: A series of self-transforming ascents of level.

But Americans are different from everyone else in the world - except the Canadians, and Americans are more different from the Canadians than they often think.