The lush green of the fields became a rich gold that swayed sturdily under the wind and fell at last before the hands of the reapers.

But one had to go back to the beginning of things, always. Trace the thread of life - find the knot - untangle it.

it was a sly trick of God's to give a man work to do - it kept him from asking questions that God couldn't answer.

I don't see as it matters much how well you mean if it's harm you're doin'.

By mid-morning a rain as fine as silk spills was weaving over the lake.

A false vision was better than none.

Ah, life, life, how madly, how cruelly it raced along your pulses!

There was nothing so real on the prairie as winter, nothing so memorable.

There is too much doing - too little being! When we begin to get strenuous, life begins to grow intolerable.

Time, designing slowly, swiftly; Time, destroying slowly, swiftly; Time holding, possessing the earth in its tender indifference.

The snow again. White, white net of beauty, net of dream, trapping the earth, trapping the helpless heart of life.

Grace is a good gift of God.

It doesn't matter where your journey begins, so long as you begin it...

Relationships are like gardening. If you don't water the plants, they die.

Your life is made up of your dreams and your realities, your expectations and your possibilities.

Art is made by the alone for the alone.

Our ability to study is not a discipline but a gift”.

I try to not to be a celebrity as much as possible.

A bookshop is powder-magazine, a dynamite-shed, a drugstore of poisons, a bar of intoxicants, a den of opiates, an island of sirens.

To know one's ignorance is the best part of knowledge.

all success cloaks a surrender