Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.

No one ever finds life worth living - one has to make it worth living.

For the first 25 years of my life, I wanted freedom. For the next 25 years, I wanted order. For the next 25 years, I realized that order is freedom.

One is quite astonished to find how many things there are in the landscape, and in every object in it, one never noticed before. And this is a tremendous new pleasure and interest which invests every walk or drive with an added object. So many colours on the hillside, each different in shadow and in sunlight; such brilliant reflections in the pool, each a key lower than what they repeat; such lovely lights gilding or silvering surface or outline, all tinted exquisitely with pale colour, rose, orange, green or violet.

Courage is rightly considered the foremost of the virtues, for upon it all others depend.

Writing is an adventure.

...to win by one is enough.