Don't waste hate on pink geranium.

In my opinion, too much attention to weather makes for instability of character.

Are you quite sure that you want to hear it?" he asked. "Sometimes, Maria, a story that one hears starts one off doing things that one would not have had to do if one had not heard it.

If you take steps based on fantasies and illusions, you shall meet realities and remember the had I knows in sorrow

Wyatt told me once that if tenderness were a disease, I’d be terminal.

Writing takes a lot of patience. It usually takes me a year to write a book. One time, it took me 14 years to write a book, not that I worked on it every day.

There can be no darker or more devastating tragedy than the death of man's faith in himself and in his power to direct his future.

Faith, as Paul saw it, was a living, flaming thing leading to surrender and obedience to the commandments of Christ.

To find fulfillment...don't exist with life - embrace it.

Truth is error burned up.

I hope someday to have so much of what the world calls success, that people will ask me, "What's your secret?" and I will tell them, "I just get up again when I fall down."

No purer artist exists or has ever existed than a child freed to imagine.

Undoubtedly there are, in connection with each of these things, cases of fraud, swindling, and other financial crimes; that is to say, the greed and selfishness of men are perpetual.