Occupation: Writer Birth: June 29, 1900 Death: July 31, 1944
Nobody grasped you by the shoulder while there was still time. Now the clay of which you were shaped has dried and hardened, and naught in you will e….
The strong are strengthened by reverses; the trouble is that the true meaning of events scores next to nothing in the match we play with men. Appeara….
A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us..
It's all a great mystery...Look up at the sky and you'll see how everything changes.
I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind..
Loneliness is bred of a mind that has grown earth-bound..
How could there be any question of acquiring or possessing, when the one thing needful for a man is to become - to be at last, and to die in the full….
You know you've achieved perfection in design, not when you have nothing more to add, but when you have nothing more to take away..
Sometimes we behave as though there was something more important than life. But what?.
Are wars... anything but the means whereby a nation's problems are set, where creation is stimulated - there you have adventure. But there is no adve….
It was the contemplation of God that created men who were equal, for it was in God that they were equal..
Vain is the hope of finding pleasure in that which one has hitherto disdained; as when the warrior hopes to find pleasure in the joys of the sedentar….
All of us have had the experience of a sudden joy that came when nothing in the world had forewarned us of its coming - a joy so thrilling that if it….
Behind all seen things lies something vaster; everything is but a path, a portal or a window opening on something other than iteself..
If you are to be, you must begin by assuming responsibility. You alone are responsible for every moment of your life, for every one of your acts..
But if you tame me, then we shall need each other. To me, you will be unique in all the world. To you, I shall be unique in all the world..
One only really sees with the heart..
Grown-ups love figures... When you tell them you've made a new friend they never ask you any questions about essential matters. They never say to you….
A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says 'I was beaten,' he does not say 'My men were beaten.'.
In every crowd are certain persons who seem just like the rest, yet they bear amazing messages..
Perhaps creativity is fumbling that dance step, or driving the chisel the wrong way into the stone..