"The sky is the part of creation in which nature has done for the sake of pleasing man."

"You may either win your peace or buy it: win it, by resistance to evil buy it, by compromise with evil."

"The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love colour the most."

"Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation."

"Someday I hope to write a book where the royalties will pay for the copies I give away."

"All I wanted to do was write - at the time, poems, and prose, too. I guess my ambition was simply to make money however I could to keep myself going in some modest way, and I didn't need much, I was unmarried at the time, no children."

"The story of life is quicker than the blink of an eye, the story of love is hello, goodbye."

"The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all other woes of mankind, is wisdom. Teach a man to read and write, and you have put into his hands the great keys of the wisdom box. But it is quite another thing to open the box."