By health I mean the power to live a full, adult, living, breathing life in close contact with... the earth and the wonders thereof - the sea - the s….

What do you want most to do? That's what I have to keep asking myself, in the face of difficulties..

It's rather nice to think of oneself as a sailor bending over the map of one's mind and deciding where to go and how to go. The great thing to rememb….

I love the night. I love to feel the tide of darkness rising, slowly and slowly washing, turning over and over, lifting, floating, all that lies stre….

Looking back, I imagine I was always writing. Twaddle it was too. But better far write twaddle or anything, anything, than nothing at all..

That's all life is - something childish and very natural. Isn't it?.

I love this place; I love mountains and big skies and forests. And the weather is still supremely beautiful even though the lower peaks are powdered ….

I love the rain. I want the feeling of it on my face..

By health I mean the power to live a full, adult, living, breathing life in close contact with what I love - the earth and the wonders thereof - the ….

I really only have Perfect Fun with myself. Other people won't stop and look at the things I want to look at or, if they do, they stop to please me o….

Do you remember your childhood? I am always coming across these marvelous accounts by writers who declare that they remember 'everything.' I certainl….

To acknowledge the presence of fear is to give birth to failure..

Can one do nothing for the dead? And for a long time the answer had been - Nothing!.

I am going to enjoy life in Paris I know. It is so human and there is something noble in the city... It is a real city, old and fine and life plays i….

Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the tru….

I adore Life. What do all the fools matter and all the stupidity. They do matter but somehow for me they cannot touch the body of Life. Life is marve….

England is merely an island of beef swimming in a warm gulf stream of gravy..

It's a terrible thing to be alone - yes it is - it is - but don't lower your mask until you have another mask prepared beneath - as terrible as you l….

In the shortest sea voyage there is no sense of time. You have been down in the cabin for hours or days or years. Nobody knows or cares. You know all….

Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back..

Yes, my mother's death is a terrible sorrow to me. I feel - do you know what I mean - the silence of it so. She was more alive than anyone I have eve….