The mountains of things we throw away are much greater than the things we use. In this, if no other way, we can see the wild an reckless exuberance of our production, and waste seems to be the index.

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.

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

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.

Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.

Nobody will ever tell you who praised you but everybody would like to be the first to tell you who criticized you.

Autumn that year painted the countryside in vivid shades of scarlet, saffron and russet, and the days were clear and crisp under harvest skies.

There is no better evangelist in the world than the Holy Spirit.

There is no one truth. There’s only what happened, based on how you perceive it.

I mean the only thing that is hopefully good about us is after the arguments we can actually still face each other the next day or the day after and talk about something else and sort of get over it.

Jehovah created the earth and therefore it is his by right of creation.

In general, costumes are the first thing in life that let other people know who we are. They indicate who the person is without saying anything.

Fellow citizens, why do you burn and scrape every stone to gather wealth and take so little care of your children to whom you must one day relinquish all?

The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves.