In my experience, it is rarer to find a really happy person in a circle of millionaires than among vagabonds.

Borders I have never seen one. But I have heard they exist in the minds of some people.

One learns more from listening than speaking.And both the wind and the people who continue to live close to nature still have much to tell us which we cannot hear within university walls.

It is progress when a centuries-old oak is cut down to give space for a road sign.

I also believe that when one dies, one may wake up to the reality that proves that time does not exist.

For every minute, the future is becoming the past.

In fighting nature, man can win every battle except the last. If he should win that too, he will perish, like an embryo cutting its own umbilical cord.

Progress is man's ability to complicate simplicity.

We have always been taught that navigation is the result of civilization, but modern archeology has demonstrated very clearly that this is not so.

It is progress when weapons are improved to kill more people at a longer range.

Circumstances cause us to act the way we do. We should always bear this in mind before judging the actions of others. I realized this from the start during World War II.

It's unexpectedly painful to have become a pronoun.

Sometimes you get so tired of each day, you wish it was over. But it just goes on and on, like the silent prayers that forever go unanswered." - excerpt from: freefalling

You humans, you know, whoever built you sewed irony into your sinews.

My cousin had a baby and I was watching her breastfeed for a couple of bucks, and I'll tell you ladies: it's amazing.

Listen for the instruction, instead of begging for the direction.

It really bothers me when some people say that all cops are racist. Of course that's not true. Most of you are just [expletive] to everybody.

It's important to write a mystery novel where the takeaway is not a giveaway - where something could be read over and over.

...the goodness of God is the highest object of prayer and it reaches down to our lowest need.

A Commander-in-Chief needs to do two things. One - tell us who the enemy is. And two - say we are fighting to win.

It's human nature to blame someone else for your shortcomings or upsets.