Sherwood Anderson

"Perseverance turns obstacles into opportunities."

"Gratitude is the gateway to abundance."

"Creativity is the antidote to conformity."

"Every soul is seeking expression."

"The truth will set you free."

"Freedom is both a right and a responsibility."

"Hope is the last thing we must never lose."

"Peace is the natural state of the awakened soul."

"Nature teaches us patience and persistence."

"Learning never stops if the mind remains open."

"The task of the writer is to make you think and feel, not necessarily to make you comfortable."

"In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future, and the context for our present."

"Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball."

"The salvation of the world depends on men learning to do their work as well as they can and not trying to be rich."

"There is something happened to me like in those little tales that used to go the rounds of the schoolboy world."

"I am sick of all the talk about being a success. The real thing is to live your own life."

"The modern town is a place of ugliness because men have not had to think of beauty as a necessity."

"Beauty is a thing that comes from the heart, not from without."

"What good am I if I am not to be used?"

"The chief thing anyone gets from reading a book is just a stimulation to their own imagination and thinking."

"You cannot make something beautiful by force or law."

"I have a kind of fear when I think of the future of my country."

"One should as a rule respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to obtain the wherewithal to buy books."

"Men are so afraid of women these days. It is rather amusing."

"The object of Art is not to reproduce nature but to interpret it."

"What man wants is not talent, it is purpose."

"The only real thing is feeling."

"I have come to think that the true business of life is not to get money or fame but to live fully."

"There is something in the human breast that hungers for beauty and for meaning."

"The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places."