Whatever I do is done out of sheer joy; I drop my fruits like a ripe tree. What the general reader or the critic makes of them is not my concern.

If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having.

Whatever there be of progress in life comes not through adaptation but through daring.

In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance.

A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition.

The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.

It is with the soul that we grasp the essence of another human being, not with the mind, nor even with the heart.

either you take in believing in miracles or you stand still like the hummingbird.

Chaos is the score upon which reality is written.

Art is only a means to life, the life more abundant. It merely points the way.

Man has demonstrated that he is master of everything - except his own nature.

And I think that's important to know how the water's gone over the dam before you start to describe it. It helps to have been over the dam yourself.

The Lord is a good banker, and I trust Him. He has never failed me. Why should I be anxious?

Learning without thought is labour lost.

Young people need to be inspired, told they can achieve anything they set their minds to.

A policeman, as you discover, has to put up with a hell of a lot of abuse. A man in any other line of work would nail a guy who laid that kind of abuse on him. I know I would.

Her interest in natural history was confined to observation of the crows' feet gathering around her eyes.

I'll take on somebody if they're offending the entire culture, not just offending me.

I known I'm only a child, yet I know we're all in the this together and should act as one single world towards one single goal

For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting.

Angels we have heard on High Tell us to go out and Buy.