“Beware the person who won't be bothered with details.”

“Success seems to be largely a matterof hanging on after others have let go.”

“Books open your mind, broaden your mind, and strengthen you as nothing else can.”

“If you're naturally kind, you attract a lot of people you don't like.”

“Finishing a good book is like leaving a good friend”

“A budget tells us what we can't afford, but it doesn't keep us from buying it.”

“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”

“If I am going to be drownedif I am going to be drownedif I am going to be drowned, why, in the name of the seven mad gods who rule the sea, was I allowed to come thus far and contemplate sand and t...”

“I'm an Earth ecstatic, and my creed is simple: All life is sacred, life loves life, and we are capable of improving our behavior toward one another. As basic as that is, for me it's also tonic and ...”

“When man will return to nature, nature will return to him.”

“The sky is an enormous man.”

“When the full-grown poet came,Out spake pleased Nature (the round impassive globe, with all its shows of day and night,) saying, He is mine;But out spake too the Soul of man, proud, jealous and unr...”

“The secret of happiness is to see all the marvels of the world, and never to forget the drops of oil on the spoon.”

“The voice of protest is the voice of another and an ancient civilization which seems to have bred in us the instinct to enjoy and fight rather than to suffer and understand.”

“In the first place , I was removed from all the wickedness of the world here. I had neither the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eye, or the pride of life. I had nothing to covet; for I had all t...”