And were an epitaph to be my story I'd have a short one ready for my own. I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover's quarrel with the world.

Always fall in with what you're asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever's going. Not against: with.

Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting.

So when at times the mob is swayed To carry praise or blame too far, We may choose something like a star To stay our minds on and be staid.

Television has greater power over the lives of most Americans than any educational system, government, or church.

People may hate you for being different and not living by society's standards but deep down, they wish they had the courage to do the same.

An existing individual is constantly in process of becoming,... and translates all his thinking into terms of process. It is with (him)... as it is with a writer and his style; for he only has a style who never has anything finished, but 'moves the waters of the language' every time he begins, so that the most common expression comes into being for him with the freshness of a new birth.

Life peels us like an onion and every layer is softer and sweeter.

Mrs. Hammon told me that God made my hair red on purpose and I haven't card for him since.

I think you had better learn to control that imagination of yours,Anne, if you can't distinguish between what is real and what isnt.

A positive self-image has little relationship to our material circumstances.

What we think about God-what we think God is like-will determine the relationship we have with God.