But Aunt Margaret doesn't like boys," objected Elnora. "Well, she likes me, and I used to be a boy.

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

When you don’t understand how to make a good use of something, you will abuse that thing.

Embrace fanaticism. Harness joie de vivre by pursuing insane interests, consuming passions, and constant sources of gratification that do not depend on the approval of others

... being with people who don't understand is worse than being alone with her grief.

Because to Americans, Chechnya might as well be a suburb of Narnia.

A drunkard clasp his teeth and not undo 'em, To suffer wet damnation to run through 'em.

Point of view is present in anything I write, but I really try to let the subject and facts speak for themselves.

Normally when a person has a stellar image another person's waiting in the wings to tear them apart. They're waiting for that one fatal flaw to expose itself.

One customer well taken care of could be more valuable than $10,000 worth of advertising.

The only disease you have is your inability to see you have the power to heal yourself.

These are the voices which we hear in solitude, but they grow faint and inaudible as we enter into the world.