Work accomplished means little. It is in the past. What we all want is the glorious and living present.

Interest in the lives of others, the high evaluation of these lives, what are they but the overflow of the interest a man finds in himself, the value he attributes to his own being?.

The writing of words can lead to all sorts of absurdities.

I have seldom written a story, long or short, that I did not have to write and rewrite. There are single stories of mine that have taken me ten or twelve years to get written.

In youth there are always two forces fighting in people. The warm unthinking little animal struggles against the thing that reflects and remembers

The whole object of education is...to develop the mind. The mind should be a thing that works.

You won’t arrive. It is an endless search.