The mind that finds its way to wild places is the poet's; but the mind that never finds its way back is the lunatic's.

If you never stop when you wave goodbye you just might find, if you give it time, you will wave hello again...

How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.

The battle for women's rights has been largely won.

Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.

There's no such thing as perfect writing, just like there's no such thing as perfect despair.

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.

A stale article, if you dip it in a good, warm, sunny smile, will go off better than a fresh one that you've scowled upon.

Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.

The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.

Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.

People create stories create people; or rather stories create people create stories.

Talk low, talk slow and don't say too much.

Since it is difficult to join them together, it is safer to be feared than to be loved when one of the two must be lacking.

Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.

Your personal nature seeks its paradise.

When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.

Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.

Any non-commissioned officer is more of an enemy to a recruit, any schoolmaster to a pupil, then they are if they were free.

Charity ... is the opium of the privileged.

Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.