Renunciation - that is the great fact we all, individuals and classes, have to learn. In trying to avoid it we bring misery to ourselves and others.

Religion is love; in no case is it logic.

Nature still obstinately refuses to co-operate by making the rich people innately superior to the poor people.

the possession of wealth, and especially the inheritance of wealth, seems almost invariably to sterilize genius.

Work is the best of narcotics, providing the patient be strong enough to take it. I dread idleness as if it were Hell.

Beneath the surface of our daily life, in the personal history of many of us, there runs a continuous controversy between an Ego that affirms and an Ego that denies.

All along the line, physically, mentally, morally, alcohol is a weakening and deadening force.

At present I feel like a caged animal, bound up by the luxury, comfort and respectability of my position. I can't get the training that I want without neglecting my duty.

That part of the Englishman's nature which has found gratification in religion is now drifting into political life.

Are all Cabinets congeries of little autocrats with a super-autocrat presiding over them?

Harris had the egotistical dogmatism of the self-made man who had painfully educated himself without contact with superior brains.

Wherever we go we do harm, forgivingourselves as wheels do cement for wearingeach other out. We set this houseon fire, forgetting that we live within.(from "To a Meadowlark, " for M.L. Smoker)

Every story has a time to be told

Seeing someone reading something I wrote on an airplane - things like that are pretty awesome.

He who seeks to terrify others is more in fear himself.

It's not the thing you fling, it's the fling itself.

And now the herald lark Left his ground-nest, high tow'ring to descry The morn's approach, and greet her with his song.

I couldn't sit by and watch them try to take her down. Not her.

Who would have guessed it possible that waiting is sustainable. A place with its own harvest.

I think the biggest shift has been in realizing how much more we are creating our life than we realize. That was sort of the epiphany to me.

My dream is to become a farmer. Just a Bohemian guy pulling up his own sweet potatoes for dinner.