I am a hoarder of two things: documents and trusted friends.

Give me a girl at an impressionable age and she is mine for life.

I see no reason to keep silent about my enjoyment of the sound of my own voice as I work.

The true novelist is one who understands the work as a continuous poem, is a myth-maker, and the wonder of the art resides in the endless different ways of telling a story.

To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul.

She wasn't a person to whom things happen. She did all the happenings.

Parents learn a lot from their children about coping with life.

It is impossible to persuade a man who does not disagree, but smiles.

If you want to concentrate deeply on some problem, and especially some piece of writing or paper-work, you should acquire a cat . . .

If you're going to do a thing, you should do it thoroughly. If you're going to be a Christian, you may as well be a Catholic.

A rebellion against a tyrant is only immoral when it hasn't got a chance.

Silence is not our heritage but our destiny

You ask yourself when you’ll learn, and the answer is always, “Tomorrow.

You are as powerful as your thoughts.

A man need not be ashamed of moist eyes when he gazes on the face of some loved one who is far away. It's human. It shows a kindly heart, an impressionable mind!("The Doomed Man")

Humans are capable of any thing. Just look how most technology you use today and see its origin and you will see over time we can improve in different ways.

Do not think of all your anxieties you will only make yourself ill.

My dogs have been my most loyal friends and constant companions.

The continuity of perception is an individualized being, when that continuity is lost, the being no longer exists as they have been.

I don't think it is given to any of us to be impertinent to great religions with impunity.

What is right is more important than who is right.