Quotes About Author

Gratefulness is the inner gesture of giving meaning to our life by receiving life as gift.

Chelsea Morning is a great Joni Mitchell song and I guess I'm partial to her lyrics because they show me a slightly different perspective on life.

Independence I have long considered as the grand blessing of life, the basis of every virtue; and independence I will ever secure by contracting my wants, though I were to live on a barren heath.

Life is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel. Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.

I have a great many opinions about writing, but I'm afraid that all of them are unprintable

I'm going to use all my tools, my God-given ability, and make the best life I can with it.

I don't want to spend the rest of my life giving speeches.

When all is said and done, no literature can outdo the cynicism of real life; you won't intoxicate with one glass someone who has already drunk up a whole barrel.

The applause was so loud and insistent that I had to respond with several encores. I was numb with happiness, when it was over, I knew that this alone must be my life and my world.

Life is like a library owned by the author. In it are a few books which he wrote himself, but most of them were written for him.

A creative life cannot be sustained by approval, any more than it can be destroyed by criticism.

The future is of greater interest to me than the past, since that is where I intend to spend the rest of my life.

Man's mind is his basic tool of survival. Life is given to him, survival is not.

Ever since then I have known that if all the values in this world are more or less questionable, the most important thing in life is kindness.

It is possible to evade a multitude of sorrows by the cultivation of an insignificant life.

Humor helps us get through life with a modicum of grace. It offers one of the few benign ways of coping with the absurdity of it all.

But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.

The fact is always obvious much too late, but the most singular difference between happiness and joy is that happiness is a solid and joy a liquid.

Being able to write becomes a kind of shield, a way of hiding, a way of too instantly transforming pain into honey.

It is the meaning of what my life has been since a youth - to try to fight for the dignity and the freedom of my own people.

My one aim in life is to secure personal holiness, for without being holy myself I cannot promote real holiness in others.

A carefree quality is a whole aspect of life that I will never understand. I don't think I have ever been carefree and can't see the pleasure of it.

Worry and anxiety are sand in the machinery of life; faith is the oil.

The thing that gave me the most pain in life, psychologically, and it gave me tremendous pain psychologically, is man's disrespect for nature.