Manual labor to my father was not only good and decent for its own sake but as he was given to saying it straightened out one's thoughts.

It is quite possible to leave your home for a walk in the early morning air and return a different person - beguiled, enchanted.

Christmas is not a date. It is a state of mind.

There is no substitute for books in the life of a child.

Even one's yesterdays could not continue to stir and move in a man's mind unless there were a future for those yesterdays to make.

Whatever laudable qualities the English may possess in their selection, preparation, and consumption of food, elegance, originality, diversity, and imagination are not among them.

Manual labor to my father was not only good and decent for it's own sake but, as he was given to saying, it straightened out one's thoughts.

Suffering without understanding in this life is a heap worse than suffering when you have at least the grain of an idea what it's all for.

The greatest danger in any argument is that real issues often clouded by superficial ones, that momentary passions may obscure permanent realities.

To lovers of the long and intricate history of language the disuse and final death of certain words is a matter of regret. Yet every age bears witness to the inevitableness of such loss.

Of all the excellent teachers of college English whom I have known I have never discovered one who knew precisely what he was doing. Therein have lain their power and their charm.

Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other and greater ones invariably slink in after it.

The myth is not my own

Find your truth and make your existence real as you choose it. Your creation is your own greatest gift. (Neings of Light via Joules)

The Swiss are not a people so much as a neat clean quite solvent business.

Patriots don't let their nation default.

Everybody is afraid they won't have any money after they die, but Jack Benny discovered a way to take it with him. He had his appendix taken out and a piggy bank put in.

You walk out in the street, we don't know if we're going to get across. It's a test.

I'm into people's emotional lives and relationships and the complications of living. That's my turf.

I think there's a lot that we remember almost chemically, through our DNA.

You don't need to change one hair. One freckle. One little toe. And if its me thats made you feel you should do this..then there's something wrong with me. -Luke Brandon