There's nothing wrong with the world. What's wrong is our way of looking at it.

The most difficult thing to adjust to, apparently, is peace and contentment.

If you can fall in love again and again if you can forgive as well as forget, if you can keep from growing sour, surly, bitter and cynical you've got it half licked.

Example moves the world more than doctrine. The great exemplars are the poets of action, and it makes little difference whether they be forces for good or forces for evil.

We are all part of creation, all kings, all poets, all musicians; we have only to open up, only to discover what is already there.

The ordinary man is involved in action, the hero acts. An immense difference.

Forget the books you want to write. Think only of the book you are writing.