I've got a woman's ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it.

The poor are prevented from thinking by the discipline of others, the rich by their own.

To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.

Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise.

Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.

It is the story that owns and directs us. It is the thing that makes us different from cattle; it is the mark on the face that sets one people apart from their neighbors.

I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled.

At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.

Jests that give pains are not jests.

Dare to risk public criticism.

We are all now connected by the Internet, like neurons in a giant brain.

He who would accomplish little must sacrifice little; he who would achieve much must sacrifice much; he who would attain highly must sacrifice greatly.

When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.

There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army.

Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.

Purity of heart is to will one thing.

Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.

It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.

Be like a tree and let the dead leaves drop.

Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.

Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.