Words are the wellspring of the world, and language is the most powerful weapon in the ancient and still unfolding war between truth and lies.

Each book is a mind alive, a life revealed, a world awaiting exploration, but living people are all those things, as well—and more, because their stories haven’t yet been completely told.

Children and dogs are the messengers of God some of us do not deserve them

Failure is part of life, but surrender is the end of life.

-Oh yes? Can you identify yourself?-Certainly. I'd know me anywhere.

When it comes to the challenges of the actual process, I soldier on as best I can, on my own.

I think human beings make life beautiful. There's a lot of beauty in everything. I think what makes life beautiful is the ability to acknowledge that.

My God, these folks don't know how to love - that's why they love so easily.

But the valid issue is the extent to which man knows how to form and master the material at his command.

The atmosphere of our time is fast being cleared of the fumes and deadly gases that arose during the carboniferous age of theology.

There are still horrible things that go on because of the myth of race, but we don't have to succumb totally.

The desert sharpened the sweet ache of his longing, amplified it, gave shape to it in sere geology and clean slant of light.