The future is not a result of choices among alternative paths offered by the present, but a place that is created—created first in the mind and will, created next in activity.

"A good sermon is one side of a passionate conversation."

"To be a writer is to sit down at one's desk in the chill portion of every day, and to write; not waiting for the little jet of the blue flame of genius to start from the breastbone--just writing."