Every action is an idea before it is an action, and perhaps a feeling before it is an idea, and every idea rests upon other ideas that have preceded it in time.

Faith can reclaim deserts as well as move mountains.

We do not write what we know; we write what we want to find out.

You can't retire to weakness -- you've got to learn to control strength.

The life we all live is amateurish and accidental; it begins in accident and proceeds by trial and error toward dubious ends.

There is nothing like a doorbell to precipitate the potential into the kinetic.

Salt is added to dried rose petals with the perfume and spices, when we store them away in covered jars, the summers of our past.