Every search has its own momentum. It is why a search makes such an excellent plot for a film or story.

I have reached the stage now where luxury is not in fine possessions but in carefree possessions, and the greatest luxury of all would be the completely expendable.

Most of us are experts at solving other people's problems, but we generally solve them in terms of our own and the advice we give is seldom for other people but for ourselves.

Enthusiasm is a plant which grows variously in the varying soils of different natures.

leisure is an attitude of mind, not simply remission of work.

If you would be happy all your life, plant a garden.

A garden is one of the few expressions of man's nature that is altogether benign.

It is always one of the tragedies of any relationship, even between people sensitive to each other's moods, that the moments of emotion so rarely coincide.

children are not undeveloped versions of adult people: they are a different race of beings: they are children.

The sorrows we imagine are more profound and inconsolable than real life leaves us time for.

The sorrows of children are profound and unsuspected.

Where happiness was not a possibility, the illusion of it was always more important.

It's a major part of world history that men are trying to kill each other. It's just one slaughter after the other. We talk about it, but no one's really listening.

I'm tired of malicious articles slandering me.

Reading groups, readings, breakdowns of book sales all tell the same story: when women stop reading, the novel will be dead.

With a lot of the music I really love, like Miles Davis, you can go back and see the processes and the stages.

It is love that believes the resurrection.

Poetry is to prose as dancing is to walking.

The soul is not born; it does not die; it was not produced from anyone… Unborn, eternal, it is not slain, though the body is slain.

The wise man... if he would live at peace with others, he will bear and forbear.

There is only one way to bring peace to the heart, joy to the mind, and beauty to the life; it is to accept and do the will of God.