Doorbells are like a magic game, Or the grab-bag at a fair -- You never know when you hear one ring Who may be waiting there.

A little town is like a lantern. Nothing's hid from sight.

Too much good fortune can make you smug and unaware. Happiness should be like an oasis, the greener for the desert that surrounds it.

When I was young they used to say people only threw stones at the tree that was loaded with fruit.

It's terrible when the weak are also cruel for then we are defenseless against them.

I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.

One of the pleasantest things about book writing is that sometimes it brings one in touch with old friends.

I've seen public opinion shift like the wind and put out the very fire it lighted.

...his hoofbeats fall like rain, over and over again.

And scandal has a way of catching up with those who disregard its power.

The sight of a cage is only frightening to the bird that has once been caught.

I do not read for I have renounced life, I read because one life is just not enough for me.

Our appearance belongs to others, we live in the darkness of the body-part of all darkness but felt.

I just started to do my own thing for about a year and a half, and I worked in the evening selling phonograph records. Then I said to myself, "I'm afraid I have to go to New York after all."

Man, before he is being regenerated, does not even know that any internal man exists, much less is he acquainted with its nature and quality.

A friend is someone who stays in when the rest of the world has gone out.

The Way is in training... Do nothing which is not of value.

I know how to put it on when it comes to interviews and performing because I have to. But I'm pretty laid back.

A man must keep an eye on his servants, if he would not have them rule him.

Looking back, you realize that everything would have explained itself if you had only stopped interrupting.

What is life, after all, but a challenge? And what better challenge can there be than the one between the pitcher and the hitter.