there's no such thing as luck. Nothing ever just happens to anybody. ... nothing can really happen to a person till he lets it happen.

It is not good for all our wishes to be filled; through sickness we recognize the value of health; through evil, the value of good; through hunger, the value of food; through exertion, the value of rest.

What better can any of us do than to reach for our own stars ... and know which they are?

the most elementary experience of life proves that the effects of compulsion last exactly as long as the physical or moral club can be applied.

You think religion is what's inside a little building filled with pretty lights from stained glass windows. But it's not. It's wings! Wings!

help that is not positively necessary is a hindrance to a growing organism.

What a fearfully distracting, perplexing and heart-searching business it is to live.