Big doesn't necessarily mean better. Sunflowers aren't better than violets.

We no longer build fireplaces for physical warmth—we build them for the warmth of the soul; we build them to dream by, to hope by, to home by.

The goat's business is none of the sheep's concern.

Writers should be read but not seen. Rarely are they a winsome sight.

A closed mind is a dying mind.

Living the past is a dull and lonely business; looking back strains the neck muscles, causing you to bump into people not going your way.

It was part of theTexas ritual? We know about champagne and caviar but we talk hog and hominy.

There are only two kinds of people in the world that really count. One kind's wheat and the other kind's emeralds.

Funny, isn't it, how your whole life goes by while you think you're only planning the way you're going to live it?

The feminine in the man is the sugar in the whisky. The masculine in the woman is the yeast in the bread. Without these ingredients the result is flat, without tang or flavor.

Life can't ever really defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death – fascinating, cruel, lavish, warm, cold, treacherous, constant.

Quotes is just quotes, cannot change your world if you not do think in that quotes, so just go and do anything...

Don't be afraid of suffering. Often scars are the medals of success.

When the GRACE of God is empty in a man's life then the DISGRACE of the devil comes in.

Remind yourself of the value of detaching from work that's out of your hands and committing to new work that wants to be born.

Archimedes constructing his circle pays with his life for his defective biological adaptation to immediate circumstances.

Any nobleness begins at once to refine a man's features, any meanness or sensuality to imbrute them.

You learn the most when you’re out on the edge.

For my part, I can compare her (a gossip) to nothing but the sun; for, like him, she knows no rest, nor ever sets in one place but to rise in another.

I'm a woman of a certain age who doesn't have kids and never really settled down ... I enjoy kids but not for long periods. I think they're adorable and funny and sweet, and then I have a headache.

It is personality with a penny's worth of talent. Error which chances to rise above the commonplace.