Life is a roar of bargain and battle, but in the very heart of it there rises a mystic spiritual tone that gives meaning to the whole. It transmutes the dull details into romance. It reminds us that our only but wholly adequate significance is as parts of the unimaginable whole. It suggests that even while living we are living to ends outside ourselves.
How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
We think in generalities, but we live in detail. To make the past live, we must perceive it in detail in addition to thinking of it in generalities.
An expansive life, one not constrained by four walls, requires as well an expansive pocket.
Life's splendor forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view, deep down, invisible, far off. It is there, though, not hostile, not reluctant, not deaf. If you summon it by the right word, by its right name, it will come.
Sometimes life is going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.
The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.
There's something desirable about anything you're used to as opposed to something you're not.
Life begins perpetually. Gathered together at last under the leadership of man, the student-teacher of the universe: unified, disciplined, armed with the secret powers of the atom, and with knowledge as yet beyond dreaming, Life, forever dying to be born afresh, forever young and eager, will presently stand upon this earth as upon a footstool, and stretch out its realm amidst the stars.
I was forced to live far beyond my years when just a child, now I have reversed the order and I intend to remain young indefinitely.