To my way of thinking and working, the greatest service a piece of fiction can do any reader is to force him to lay it down with a higher ideal of life than he had when he took it up.

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

Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.

A man can forgive all manner of faults in beautiful women that in ugly men he find entirely beyond sufferance

Be grown enough to do whatever you want to, but wise enough to always do the right thing.

But there's no emergency kit for marriage. No neat plan you can turn to when the ground shifts beneath your feet.

Scorsese, Spielberg, Tarantino, Peter Jackson - all of you: I'm here, I'm ready. I can do funny faces, I can sing, I can dance. Hire me!

If you think big, then it's going to be big.

And history becomes legend and legend becomes history.

Globalization offers us enormous opportunities in the race to leapfrog in development processes. It also obliges us to set in motion processes which would minimize its risks.

The two-word definition of sustainability is 'one planet.'

You yourself are even another little world and have within you the sun and the moon and also the stars.