There’s no sight on earth more appealing than that of a woman making dinner for someone she loves.

You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.

The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence.

All things on earth point home in old October; sailors to sea, travellers to walls and fences, hunters to field and hollow and the long voice of the hounds, the lover to the love he has forsaken.

Man is born to live, to suffer, and to die, and what befalls him is a tragic lot. There is no denying this in the final end. But we must deny it all along the way.

Make your mistakes, take your chances, look silly, but keep on going. Don’t freeze up.

America - it is a fabulous country, the only fabulous country; it is the only place where miracles not only happen, but where they happen all the time.

I have to see a thing a thousand times before I see it once.

Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.

The mountains were his masters. They rimmed in life. They were the cup of reality, beyond growth, beyond struggle and death. They were his absolute unity in the midst of eternal change.

Making the world safe for hypocrisy.

You can never fill your life with prosperity if you walk with a poor person’s mentality.

I know what the attitudes of the readers are: These are guys who love women and respect women.

Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

You can only have one aim per debate.

The faith in Christ that saves us from our sins involves an internal transformation that has external implications.

I used to do poetry and write stories and stuff - I never really had anybody standing over my shoulder, like, "What did you write? Let me hear it." I hate that type of stuff.

You are in a state of mixing, and you just live with it. There is not one musician who is completely happy with a mix.

I play my enemies like a game of chess

If we surrendered to earth's intelligence we could rise up rooted, like trees.

Lions make leopards tame.