If you fell down yesterday, 

stand up today.

A man may be so much of everything 

that he is nothing of anything.

A person is a fool to become a writer. 

His only compensation is absolute freedom.

Comedy,

we may say,

is society protecting itself

— with a smile.

War is so unjust and ugly 

that all who wage it 

must try to stifle the voice of conscience within themselves.

The real spiritual progress of the aspirant is measured

 by the extent to which he achieves inner tranquility.

Such fire was not by water to be drowned, 

nor he his nature changed by changing ground.

The place to improve the world 

is first 

in one's own heart 

and head 

and hands.

A writer's ambition should be 

to trade a hundred contemporary readers 

for ten readers in ten years' time 

and for one reader in a hundred years' time.

The child who concentrates is immensely happy.