What was money that it should make such dreadful things of men and women?

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

You never know these days. Uninvited guests may force you to take an unplanned trip to an unknown destination

Time and space are awash here.

My parents did a great job of creating a home we wanted to return to...and all of our friends wanted to be there too.

History is the shank of the social sciences.

When we focus on what is good and beautiful in someone, whether or not we think that they "deserve" it, the good and beautiful are strengthened merely by the light of our attention.

The unlimited capacity of the plant world to sustain man at his highest is a region as yet unexplored by modern science.

I have always thought that if I could turn back the pages of history and photograph one man, my choice would be Moses.

It's fashionable in some circles to be pessimistic about America, about conservative solutions, about the Republican Party. I utterly reject that pessimism.

You create your own reality. There is no other rule.

Always work with people that are better at their craft than you are.