Excellence of mind itself, rightly conceived, is expertise in beauty; creativity is wise love.

True teachers not only impart knowledge and method but awaken the love of learning by their own reflected love.

All great experience has a guarded entrance and a windowless facade.

We struggle with, agonize over and bluster heroically about the great questions of life when the answers to most of these lie hidden in our attitude toward the thousand minor details of each day.

We pamper the present like a spoiled child, obeying its superficial demands but ignoring its real needs.

The happy individual is able to renew daily and with full consciousness all the basic expressions of human identity: work, love, communication, play, and rest.

Plans made swiftly and intuitively are likely to have flaws. Plans made carefully and comprehensively are sure to.

The future is like the daytime moon, a diffident but faithful companion, so elegant as to be almost invisible, an inconspicuous marvel.

Happiness may well consist primarily of an attitude toward time.

In the landscape of time, there are few locations less comfortable than that of one who waits for some person or event to arrive at some unknown moment in the future.

Written truth is four-dimensional. If we consult it at the wrong time, or read it at the wrong place, it is as empty and shapeless as a dress on a hook.

There are some things you must understand and discover for yourself. And after discovering them, start living accordingly

Sometimes dreaming is opening your eyes and looking at the world around you.

A wise old owl once told me, One time when he was out of his tree, That nothing in this world is for free.I agree!

Where there is less pain, there is also less pay.

A writer's work is to witness things.

I'm an Elvis fan because it was Elvis who really got me out of Liverpool.

Sacrificing everything for one's craft is something some people can't help. They can't help themselves. They must do it. They're driven to do it.

Grover and Nico came back from their walk, and Grover helped me fix up my wounded arm. "It's green!" Nico said with delight.

The passions of men are commonly more potent than their reason.

A private central bank issuing the public currency is a greater menace to the liberties of the people than a standing army. We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt.