You cannot fly like an eagle with the wings of a wren.

Have you ever observed a humming-bird moving about in an aerial dance among the flowers - a living prismatic gem.... it is a creature of such fairy-like loveliness as to mock all description.

There are few places in England where you can get so much wildness and desolation of sea and sandhills, wood, green marsh and grey saltings as at Wells in Norfolk.

We know that our senses are subject to decay, that from our middle years they are decaying all the time; but happily it is as if we didn't know and didn't believe.

There are many Green Dragons in this world of wayside inns, even as there are many White Harts, Red Lions, Silent Women and other incredible things.

Now that we are cool, he said, and regret that we hurt each other, I am not sorry that it happened.

The puma is, with the exception of some monkeys, the most playful animal in existence.

Animals of all classes, old and young, shrink with instinctive fear from any strange object approaching them.

Of all the people I have ever known you are the only one I don't know.

In going back we must take our present selves with us: the mind has taken a different colour, and this is thrown back upon our past.

My feathered friends were so much to me that I am constantly tempted to make this sketch of my first years a book about birds and little else.

Hating hurts the hater the most. Hating is not a salve for the wounded soul, it is an abrasive that keeps the soul wounded and raw and oversensitive.

Art needs no victory because it is already the victory of the meticulous mind!

I was once asked, 'How do you manage to always be in a positive spirit?' I replied, 'It is because I cannot afford to live with the emotional pain that comes with dwelling on negativity.

I hope I'm an integrous person who cleans up their messes when I've been a jerk.

Truth comes when your mind and heart are purged of all sense of striving and you are no longer trying to become somebody; it is there when the mind is very quiet, listening timelessly to everything.

You've got to keep your finger on the pulse of what your audience is thinking and know what they'll accept from you.

A major difficulty is that the answer to the Riddle of the Sphinx is partly a product of the answers that we already have given to the riddle in its various forms.

And I want to find a way to be of service to humanity. I think that's crucial. So want to be an artist and a servant, a humanitarian, and I want to play goofy weirdoes.

Mystical additions and subtractions always come out the way you want.

Man is the only animal for whom his own stupid existence is a problem which he has to try in vain to solve.