Marriage may be the closest thing to Heaven or Hell any of us will know on this earth.

Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue a wonderful living side by side can grow if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.

The first thing which I can record concerning myself is that I was born. These are wonderful words. This life to which neither time nor eternity can bring diminution - this everlasting living soul began. My mind loses itself in these depths.

I think my family and closest friends are learning about my need to withdraw and I am learning how to restore and store my energy to both serve the community to the best of my ability and to serve my writer's heart.

If you're a singer you lose your voice. A baseball player loses his arm. A writer gets more knowledge and if he's good the older he gets the better he writes.

A German immersed in any civilization different from his own loses a weight equivalent in volume to the amount of intelligence he displaces.

It has always been my private conviction that any man who puts his intelligence up against a fish and loses had it coming.

I like to have a thing suggested rather than told in full. When every detail is given the mind rests satisfied and the imagination loses the desire to use its own wings.

Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity.

Love begins by taking care of the closest ones - the ones at home.