Work accomplished means little. It is in the past. What we all want is the glorious and living present.

Dare to be strong and courageous. That is the road. Venture anything.

The object of art is not to make salable pictures. It is to save yourself.

The lives of people are like young trees in a forest. They are being choked by climbing vines. The vines are old thoughts and beliefs planted by dead men.

You won’t arrive. It is an endless search.

There is within every human being a deep well of thinking over which a heavy iron lid is kept clamped.

I think the whole glory of writing lies in the fact that it forces us out of ourselves and into the lives of others.

The thing of course, is to make yourself alive. Most people remain all of their lives in a stupor.

I go about looking at horses and cattle. They eat grass, make love, work when they have to, bear their young. I am sick with envy of them.

It was a cold day but the sun was out and the trees were like great bonfires against gray distant fields and hills.

The whole object of education is...to develop the mind. The mind should be a thing that works.

You shout because it makes you brave or you want to announce your recklessness.

It's so interesting that the romantic side of my life comes from my father, who I really didn't even know that well.

Listen to no man who has not listened to God.

You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.

Let us choose for ourselves our path in life, and let us try to strew that path with flowers.

From the cradle to the grave, temptations all around. But no matter how good the fix, its gonna take you down.

You're not disabled by the disabilities you have, you are able by the abilities you have.

[James Bond's qualities of] self-containment, his powers of decision, his ability to carry on through till the end and to survive ... I like to think I acquired them before Bond.

Every champion was once a contender that refused to give up.

Some nights, I was so good that I could have become an egotist.