Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things.

When you sell a man a book, you don't sell him 12 ounces of  
paper and glue, you sell him a whole new life.  

At times, it is better to keep your mouth shut and let  people wonder if you're a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.  

I believe that for permanent survival, man must balance science with other qualities of life, qualities of body and spirit as well as those of mind - qualities he cannot develop when he lets mechanics and luxury insulate him too greatly from the earth to which he was born.

This we know. . . the earth does not belong to man, man belongs to the earth. All things are connected, like the blood which connects one family. Whatever befalls the earth befalls the children of the earth. Man did not weave the web of life - he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.

Art is a deliberate recreation of a new and special reality that grows from your response to life. It cannot be copied; it must be created.

You cannot step twice into the same stream. For as you are stepping in, other waters are ever flowing on to you.

Think today's interest rates are high? The Pilgrims borrowed $7000 from a London company of 70 investors in 1620, and devoted the next 23 years to repaying it at 43 percent.