“The temple of art is built in words.”

“Nature is the master of talents genius is the master of nature. ”

“Joys divided are increased.”

“God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest.”

“Scholarship except by accident is never the measure of a person's power.”

“Artists are nearest God. Into their souls he breathes his life and from their hands it comes in fair articulate forms to bless the world.”

“They had killed themselves over our dying forests, over manatees maimed by propellers as they surfaced to drink from garden hoses; they had killed themselves at the sight of used tires stacked high...”

“The world seemed to shimmer a little at the edges.”

“If we cannot accept the importance of the world, which considers itself important, if in the midst of that world our laughter finds no echo, we have but one choice: to take the world as a whole and...”

“You had to suffer shipwreck through your own efforts before you were ready to seize the lifebelt he threw you. Believe me, I know from my own experience that the Master knows you and each of his pu...”

“The ancient wisdom of the masters says that even a mighty oak was once a nut like you.”

“It no longer matters who consider themselves the masters of events. Events no longer obey their masters.”

“Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing.”

“The scepticism which men affect towards their higher inspirations is often not an honest doubt, but a guilty negligence, and is a sign of narrow mind and defective wisdom.”

“Police business is a hell of a problem. Its a good deal like politics. It asks for the highest type of men, and theres nothing in it to attract the highest type of men. So we have to work with what...”