A work is finished when an artist realizes his intentions.
We both believe, and disbelieve a hundred times an hour, which keeps believing nimble.
If you take care of the small things, the big things take care of themselves. You can gain more control over your life by paying closer attention to the little things.
The soul selects her own society, Then shuts the door; On her divine majority Obtrude no more.
To travel far, there is no better ship than a book.
We turn not older with years but newer every day.
Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tunes without the words - and never stops at all.
No one knows how it is that with one glance a boy can break through into a girl's heart.
I must pack my short lifer full of interesting events and creative activity. Philosophy and aesthetic contemplation are not enough. I intend to do everything possible to broaden my experiences and allow myself to reach the fullest development. Then, and before physical deterioration obtrudes, I shall go on some last wilderness trip to a place I have known and loved. I shall not return.
The overall quantity of nuclear weapons in the world continues to decline slowly.
At last, after almost fifty years in the hopper, the most famous unpublished novel in America is in print. Who Shot the Water Buffalo? is a splendid story of comradeship in a time and place of constant peril, but it's Babbs's irrepressible exuberance and vast, affectionate good humor that make the story go. I love this novel.