A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think youcontrol it.

What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.

I find out of long experience that I admire all nations and hate all governments

We value virtue but do not discuss it. The honest bookkeeper, the faithful wife, the earnest scholar get little of our attention compared to the embezzler, the tramp, the cheat.

When we get these thruways across the whole country, as we will and must, it will be possible to drive from New York to California without seeing a single thing.

Montana seems to me to be what a small boy would think Texas is like from hearing Texans

In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself.

Perhaps my greatest wisdom is the knowledge that I do not know.

You don't even know where I'm going.""I don't care. I'd like to go anywhere.

What I am mourning is perhaps not worth saving, but I regret its loss nevertheless.

...people don’t take trips—trips take people.

It is easy to see the glow but hard to recognize the awakening of silence.

Men do things. We can't help it. That's all there is to it. As you will discover in time, the primary choice every man has to make is whether he wants to be himself or if he wants peace.

I beg you, alight and join your sorrow with mine: misfortune wanders everywhere, and settles now upon one and now upon another.

I like to work. The self-esteem and satisfaction that I get from working makes me a better person, which makes me a better mom.

You know what days these are? The days of Elijah. We are in the days of Elijah! Fire is falling down from heaven!

You don't want to get pigeon-holed. So, I always get attracted to parts that are different from the previous ones I've played.

Individuality and originality is was separates good and great artists! How much they can move people with what they do! If they can shake the heart with what they do, is the key!

I played with Willie Mays and against Hank Aaron. They were tremendous players, but they were no Josh Gibson.

Love must be proven by facts and not by reasons.

You can't build a society purely on interests, you need a sense of belonging.