One of the greatest things about writing as a profession is that the words of Tolstoy, Chesterton and Dostoyevsky have lived for a hundred years and are just as powerful today. Their words have changed...

Call me infidel, call me atheist, call me what you will, I intend so to treat my children, that they can come to my grave and truthfully say: ‘He who sleeps here never gave us...

The teachings of elegant sayings should be collected when one can. For the supreme gift of words of wisdom, any price will be paid.

A witty saying proves nothing

My Address Where You Are !

No encounter occured that day, and I was glad of it; I took out of my pocket a little Homer I had not opened since leaving Marseilles, reread three lines of the Odyssey, learned them...

I don’t think words could describe what that could do for the city. The city has been ravaged. They need some good news. Tourism is a big part of their whole economic structure. Hopefully they...

The words that strike us are those that awake an echo in a zone we have already made our own—the place where we live—and the vibration enables us to find fresh starting points within ourselves.

My words will be my legacy, etched in heartfelt honesty upon the pages of time.

Clara Winter,” he said. “You are a word person and don’t ever forget it.”He was right. He knew. He could tell. It’s something that can be sensed. There’s a difference between word-people and non-word-people.