There's never been a lack of men willing to die bravely. The trouble is to find a few able to live sensibly.

The things that one most wants to do are the things that are probably most worth doing.

The crown of life is neither happiness nor annihilation; it is understanding.

Is this the final treachery of time, that the old become a burden upon the young?

This alone is to be feared - the closed mind, the sleeping imagination, the death of the spirit. The death of the body is to that, I think, a little thing.

Nature is not silent, and never was a name more derisively inappropriate than when we speak of these non-human creatures who hoot and crow and bray as the dumb animals.

A sense of humor is so handy, isn't it? It lets you see both sides of a question so that you never need do anything.

I am much perturbed by this business of sickness. Our bodies seem so easily to leap into the saddle where our minds should be. People who are ill become changelings.

We each live in a private, distorted, individual world - stars turning in space, warmed for a moment by each other's light, then lost in infinite distance.

it is the brevity of life which makes it tolerable; its experiences have value because they have an end.

I am fierce for work. Without work I am nothing.

The only interesting ideas are heresies

Overcome your barriers, intend the best, and be patient. You will enjoy more balance, more growth, more income, and more fun!

Anything we take in the Universe, because it has in itself that which is All in All, includes in its own way, the entire soul of the world, which is entirely in any part of it.

[T]he only thing wrong with Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address was that it was the South, not the North, that was fighting for a government of the people, by the people and for the people.

Adoption is an answer to a tragedy that has already happened, but may it never be the impetus for one that hasn’t.

We need to reform our school lunch programs. We need to get healthy items into the vending machines.

Hate not your enemies; love thy rivals, for this is the only way to convert them into your friends and your partners!

You can blame people who knock things over in the dark or you can begin to light candles. You're only at fault if you know about the problem and choose to do nothing.

All characters are based on elements of a writer's personal experience.

To defend what you've written is a sign that you are alive.