The best fish in the world are of course those one catches oneself.

A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life, to be thankful for a good one.

When a wave of love takes over a human being... such an exaltation takes him that he knows he has put his finger on the pulse of the great secret and the great answer.

We cannot live without the Earth or apart from it, and something is shrivelled in a man's heart when he turns away from it and concerns himself only with the affairs of men

I do not understand how anyone can live without some small place of enchantment to turn to.

A woman never forgets the men she could have had; a man, the women he couldn't

It seems to me that the earth may be borrowed but not bought. It may be used but not owned. We are tenants, not possessors, lovers and not masters.

Fear is the most easily taught of all lessons, and the fight against terror, real or imagined, is perhaps the history of man's mind.

Cross Creek belongs to the wind and the rain, to the sun and the seasons, to the cosmic secrecy of seed, and beyond all, to time.

Ants in the house seem to be, not intruders, but the owners.

Readers themselves, I think, contribute to a book. They add their own imaginations, and it is as though the writer only gave them something to work on, and they did the rest.

Be yourself. Don't worry about what other people are thinking of you.

There’s something so great about this, ” she whispers. About what?” I whisper back.About this, ” she whispers. About being outlaws. It’s just you and me—against the world.

Long gone was the cheery welcome of the seaside hotelier, replaced by a weary nostalgia for the good old days.

Kids are great. That's one of the best things about our business, all the kids you get to meet. It's a shame they have to grow up to be regular people and come to the games and call you names.

There is an ill-breeding to which, whatever our rank and nature, we are almost equally sensitive, the ill-breeding that comes from want of consideration for others.

Those who are right do not argue. Those who argue are not right.

One just soul can attain pardon for a thousand sinners.

If I told you what we were doing there, I would have to kill you.

I had many reasons for writing memoir but among them was the hope that every Latino child and adult would find something familiar in it.

Luxury has been railed at for two thousand years, in verse and in prose, and it has always been loved.