If you are lazy, and accept your lot, you may live in it. If you are willing to work, you can write your name anywhere you choose.

Be sure that you are right; and then go ahead.

To my way of thinking and working, the greatest service a piece of fiction can do any reader is to force him to lay it down with a higher ideal of life than he had when he took it up.

When any man accumulates more than he can earn with his own hands, he begins to enrich himself at the expense of the youth, the sweat, the blood, the joy of his fellow men.

Nature can be trusted to work her own miracle in the heart of any man whose daily task keeps him alone among her sights, sounds and silences.

Of two evils, I always choose the lesser.

I write as the birds sing, because I must, and usually from the same source of inspiration.