We are not better than native born Americans, and of course not smarter. We’ve just been to the last stop of this bus.

Let's assume there really is no such thing as happiness, no such thing as peace, and no freedom either. But there are kind of attacks of senseless ecstasy. Can this be me?

Sales were lukewarm. Back home there was no freedom, but there were readers. Here there was freedom enough, but readers were missing.

If people are rude in Moscow, at least it's in Russian.

There's a reason every book, even one that isn't very serious, is shaped like a suitcase

Our life is but a grain of sand in the indifferent ocean of infinity.

If Hemingway is to believed, poverty is an invaluable school for a writer. Poverty makes a man clear-sighted. And so on. It's interesting that Hemingway realized this only when he became rich.

Stop thinking. I've stopped some 15 years ago. Otherwise, if you will be thinking you won't want to live. Everyone who thinks is unhappy.

Humility makes me cry! There isn't a bigger asset than it.

The fact of the matter is it's very reasonable to ask the wealthiest estates to pay their share. We did that since Teddy Roosevelt, a Republican president.

Adequate early rest is best...."Early to bed and early to rise" is still good counsel.

Instead of studying how to make it worth men's while to buy my baskets, I studied rather how to avoid the necessity of selling them.

My life is brillant, My love is pure.

Man and woman as coexistent and eternal with God forever reflect, in glorified quality, the infinite Father-Mother God.

The best spiritual instruction is when you wake up in the morning and say, 'I wonder what's going to happen today.' And then carry that kind of curiosity through your life.

Following your heart's desire will lead you in the direction your spirit wants to go.

Even a tiny step is one step closer to where you are going.

When you figure it right down, none of us are in a really essential business but the farmer, and he raises so much that even his business is partly non-essential.