Riches seem to come to the poor in spirit, the poor in interest and joy. To put it straight - the very rich are a poor bunch of bastards

We, or at least I, can have no conception of human life and human thought in a hundred years or fifty years. Perhaps my greatest wisdom is the knowledge that I do not know. The sad ones are those who waste their energy in trying to hold it back, for thy can only feel bitterness in loss and no joy in gain.

I remember my childhood names for grasses and secret flowers. I remember where a toad may live and what time the birds awaken in the summer -- and what trees and seasons smelled like -- how people looked and walked and smelled even. The memory of odors is very rich.

Literature is as old as speech. It grew out of a human need for it, and it has not changed except to become more needed

His ear heard more than what was said to him, and his slow speech had overtones not of thought, but of understanding beyond thought.

Books are the best friends you can have; they inform you, and entertain you, and they don't talk back.

There are two kinds of people in the world, observers and non-observers.