Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil - or else an absolute ignorance.

There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.

My two fingers on a typewriter have never connected with my brain. My hand on a pen does. A fountain pen, of course. Ball-point pens are only good for filling out forms on a plane.

Hate is a lack of imagination.

Our worst enemies here are not the ignorant and simple, however cruel; our worst enemies are the intelligent and corrupt

Innocence always calls mutely for protection when we would be so much wiser to guard ourselves against it: innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.

Innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.

A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead.

A single feat of daring can alter the whole conception of what is possible.

Sweet are the thoughts that savor of content: the quiet mind is richer than a crown.

People who like quotes love meaningless generalizations

Giving without expectations is the ultimate secret source of abundance.

Write until it becomes as natural as breathing, write until not writing makes you anxious.

I was a woman unaccustomed to guilt, and it drowned me - pulling me deeper, cutting off my air supply.

Whenever you are confronted with an opponent conquer him with love.

Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone but principally by catch words.

I love skiing, scuba diving and hang-gliding.

Until you know that life is interesting - and find it so - you haven't found your soul.

I had a deep prejudice against the South. It's taken me many years to get over that, be more open and thoughtful.

It is almost a definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain.

There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more.