I often wish... that I could rid the world of the tyranny of facts. What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease.

I often wish... that I could rid the world of the tyranny of facts. What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease.

The first need of being is endurance; to endure with gladness if we can, with fortitude in any event.

Indifference may not wreck a man's life at any one turn, but it will destroy him with a kind of dry-rot in the long run.

Set me a task in which I can put something of my very self, and it is a task no longer; it is joy; it is art.

Where there is writing- there is a writer Where there is planning- there is a planner Where there is a building- there is a builder Where there is a miracle- there is a God!

It is not being out at heels that makes a man discontented, it is being out at heart. To be contented is to be good friends with yourself.