There is no lostness like that which comes to a man when a perfect and certain pattern has dissolved about him.

Don't worry about losing. If it is right, it happens - The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away.

Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.

The free exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world.

And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.

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

I believe a strong woman may be stronger than a man, particularly if she happens to have love in her heart. I guess a loving woman is indestructible.

When two people meet, each one is changed by the other so you've got two new people.

Writers are a little below clowns and a little above trained seals.

This I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual.

If you understand each other you will be kind to each other.

If I thought I could never love you more, I didn't understand you well enough.

I've never known a runner who had as much patience as he needed.

I never kept a diary, but I wrote detailed notes of my travels.

Next to religion, baseball has had a greater impact on our American way of life than any other American institution.

There is only one better thing than music - live music.

John Wayne was never shy about that fervor, but because he was never overly zealous about his politics, and of course his status as a movie, he was embraced by both the right and the left.

I am trying to be unfamiliar with what I'm doing.

Only when men are connected to large, universal goals are they really happy-and one result of their happiness is a rush of creative activity.

I want to live, I want to give, I've been a miner for a heart of gold.

Do you have any toy train schedules?