Those who spend their strength in field and factory would rather hear that their emancipation is bound to come than that it is something to be hazardously purchased by struggle and sacrifice.

To think of losing is to lose already.

It is best as one grows older to strip oneself of possessions, to shed oneself downward like a tree, to be almost wholly earth before one dies.

... possessiveness cannot accept; it cannot even strike a fair bargain; it has to confer.

The fatal flaw of gravity; when you are down, everything falls down on you.

Spring is strictly sentimental, self-regarding; but I burn more careless in the autumn bonfire.

Inflation is the senility of democracies.

cooking is the most succulent of human pleasures.

One cannot overestimate the power of a good rancorous hatred on the part of the stupid. The stupid have so much more industry and energy to expend on hating. They build it up like coral insects.

Truth has beauty, power, and necessity.

Idleness is righteous if it is comfortable. Uncomfortable idleness is sin & sinful waste.

Njoy Life to the extend, at which you make the moment and you live it

Great and pure thoughts cannot be deposited in minds accumulated with rubbish.

What would be left of our tragedies if an insect were to present us his?

Comedy will always be central to what I do, it's just an instinct for me, but I am a writer and always have been.

You can't be sensitive, because you're going to get criticized. I don't care who you are, you're going to get criticized.

I still have the art projects my kids made for me 20 years ago. I cherish them, crude and silly as some of them may be.

I'm addicted to Altoids. I call them 'acting pills.'

Pan, who and what art thou?" he cried huskily. "I'm youth, I'm joy," Peter answered at a venture, "I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg.

The child has a mind able to absorb knowledge. He has the power to teach himself.

The imitator treads a beaten walk, and with all his diligence can only find a few flowers or branches untouched by his predecessor, the refuse of contempt, or the omissions of negligence.