Count your age with friends but not with years.

Not in rewards, but in the strength to strive, the blessing lies.

Out of the solar walk and Heaven's highway.

Love has nothing to do with competency in electronics.

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

The dream reveals the reality which conception lags behind. That is the horror of life -- the terror of art.

A man is not a wall, whose stones are crushed upon the road; or a pipe, whose fragments are thrown away at a street corner. The fragments of an intellect are always good.

It is strange that we do not temper our resentment of criticism with a thought for our many faults which have escaped us.

Trying is a part of failing. If you are afraid to fail then you're afraid to try.

Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.

The rigid saint, by whom no mercy's shown To saints whose lives are better than his own.

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.

Mediocrity is climbing molehills without sweating.

Only the sea intoning, Only the wainscot-mouse, Only the wild wind moaning Over the lonely house.

Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers - and never succeeding.

We don't want a thing because we have found a reason for it- we find a reason for it because we want it.

People get so in the habit of worry that if you save them from drowning and put them on a bank to dry in the sun with hot chocolate and muffins they wonder whether they are catching cold.

If your time ain't come not even a doctor can kill you.

What sought they thus afar? Bright jewels of the mine? The wealth of seas, the spoils of war?-- They sought a faith's pure shrine!

A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another's.