it takes the very wisest person there is to know when to talk, and when to keep still.

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

It doesn’t cost much to be Happy if the currency of your heart is the blowing of the breeze and the swaying of the trees.

Sometimes, you know, human kindness just knocks you off your feet.

We can please God by his power.

Be slow to fall into friendship but when thou art in continue firm and constant.

Hitters get paid a lot of money to hit. Let's face it, man, sometimes they just do.

For a much lauded writer, I'm not terribly self-absorbed. In social situations, which are difficult for me - I mean, this is an interview - I'm normally uncomfortable talking about myself.

Freedom and independence form my character.

Call it a character flaw -- when under attack, I counter attack. Always.

In todays uncertain economy, the safest solution to be wealthy, be in total control and enjoy freedom for you and your family is to have multiple streams of income.

Mastery is in the reaching, not in the arriving.