You never know how you'll turn out till you've been down to half a dollar and no prospects.

The best way of forgetting how you think you feel is to concentrate on what you know you know.

The gods only go with you if you put yourself in their path. And that takes courage.

The mills of God work like lightning compared with the law.

I reached for sleep and drew it round me like a blanket muffling pain and thought together in the merciful dark

Every life has a death, and every light a shadow. Be content to stand in the light, and let the shadow fall where it will.

Where two Greeks are gathered together, there will be at least three political parties represented, and possibly more.

To plant a garden is the chief of the arts of peace.

I knew that I had turned my world back to cinders, sunk my lovely ship with my own stupid, wicked hands.

The place for truth is not in the facts of a novel; it is in the feelings.

It is never wise to turn aside from knowing, however the knowing comes.

The work of art is, after all, an act of faith in our ability to communicate symbolically.

Who can see twenty-five years into the future?” she had asked. “Your guess is as good as theirs. Confidence is everything.

You can get through anything that life throws at you”.

Wilderness areas are first of all a series of sanctuaries for the primitive arts of wilderness travel, especially canoeing and packing.

He was in love, and people in that condition did stupid, unfathomable things. They were all flawed, every single one.

The foundations of civilization are no stronger and no more enduring than the corporate integrity of the homes on which they rest. If the home deteriorates, civilization will crumble and fall.

We'll have all the best of this and Heaven too, the best of two Worlds!-Heaven now and Heaven to come!

Seducing him in the tub smelling of vinegar was out of the question. There had to be some boundaries.

The politician is an acrobat. He keeps his balance by saying the opposite of what he does.

Most of the world's work is done by people who don't feel very well.