So many people seem to imagine that because the actual tools of writing are easily accessible, it is less difficult than the other arts. This is entirely an illusion.

The pacifist's task today is to find a method of helping and healing which provides a revolutionary constructive substitute for war.

Modern war and modern civilisation are utterly incompatible...one or the other must go.

Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.

There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who will ask for no reward except to see.

It is probably true to say that the largest scope for change still lies in men's attitude to women, and in women's attitude to themselves.

An author who waits for the right 'mood' will soon find that 'moods' get fewer and fewer until they cease altogether.

few things are more rewarding than a child's open uncalculating devotion.

I thought that spring must last forevermore, For I was young and loved, and it was May.

The best prose is written by authors who see their universe with a poet’s eyes.

We should never be at the mercy of Providence if only we understood that we ourselves are Providence.

We are never defeated unless we give up on God.

Love is the poetry of the senses!

It was as important to live poetically as to write poems.

You have the Answer. Just get quiet enough to hear it. ~Pat Obuchowski

Work smart, stay informed, never give up, and great things will happen.

Read to lead in order to succeed.

Man's many desires are like the small metal coins he carries about in his pocket. The more he has the more they weight him down.

It's so easy to become a grumbler, someone who condemns and carps at everything on principle and sees an ulterior motive behind it.

I don't mind dying, the trouble is you feel so bloody stiff the next day.

In some cases, I quite like irritating people who need to be irritated.