"The best way out is always through."
Courage
"Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired."
Love
"Nothing gold can stay."
Nature
"Design is not making beauty, beauty emerges from selection, affinities, integration, love."
Beauty
"There is such a thing as being too proud to fight."
Strength
"Thinking isn't agreeing or disagreeing. That's voting."
Philosophy
"The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom."
Art
"Most of the changes we think we see in life are due to truths being in and out of favor."
Change
"A person should be read as they need to be read, not as you want to read them."
Relationships
"I would have written of me as one that loves his fellow men."
Kindness
"The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places."
Strength
"Forgiveness is the hardest of the virtues to achieve; think that if God forgives us we should forgive ourselves."
Faith
"A dreamer is one who can only find their way by moonlight, and their punishment is that they see the dawn before the rest of the world."
Dreams
"We are always getting ready to live but never living."
Life
"A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you."
Friendship
"The reason winter is called the off-season is because it's the season for turning inward."
Solitude
"Art is the effort to understand the human experience better and to convey that understanding."
Art
"The worst that can happen in life is that you're the only one who understands."
Solitude
"Being the boss anywhere is lonely. God was the boss in the very beginning. God is lonely."
Leadership
"You can be anything you want to be, just turn yourself loose."
Imagination
"Nature's first green is gold, her hardest hue to hold."
Nature
"A civilized society is one which tolerates atheists."
Freedom
"The only certain freedom's in departure."
Freedom
"Pressed into service means pressed out of shape."
Work
"The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother's always a Democrat."
Family
"A good friend is my nearest relation."
Friendship
"Life is too short to spend your time explaining yourself or apologizing for who you are."
Courage
"Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in."
Family
"A mother's intuition is the voice of accumulated human experience."
Wisdom
"Writing is undoing the sense of being trapped by circumstance."
Creativity