You can live a lifetime and, at the end of it, know more about other people than you know about yourself.

I learned what every dreaming child needs to know, that no horizon is so far you cannot get above it or beyond it.

If a man has any greatness in him, it comes to light, not in one flamboyant hour, but in the ledger of his daily work.

A lovely horse is always an experience.... It is an emotional experience of the kind that is spoiled by words.

A life has to move or it stagnates. Even this life, I think. Every tomorrow ought not to resemble every yesterday.

A word grows to a thought – a thought to an idea – an idea to an act. The change is slow, and the Present is a sluggish traveler loafing in the path Tomorrow wants to take.

A map says to you. Read me carefully, follow me closely, doubt me not... I am the earth in the palm of your hand.

That's what makes death so hard--unsatisfied curiosity

There's an old adage," he said, "translated from the ancient Coptic, that contains all the wisdom of the ages -- "Life is life and fun is fun, but it's all so quiet when the goldfish die.

In Africa people learn to serve each other. They live on credit balances of little favors that they give and may, one day, ask to have returned.

Conformation ... but not much else. Breeding, but too small a heart. You saw it everywhere - in men, in horses, and in women.

They had lived and known glory, and then they were ddead. She was alive and they were not, and nothing but a heartbeat separated her from them

Every time we choose our past over our present we kill our future.

We’re here to change the world, not participate in its tedium.

She was the kind of girl who wore dark lipstick and didn't need to speak a word to seduce you.

Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.

Next to the joy of the egotist is the joy of the detractor.

m doing my best" "no,this isn't your best. We shall recognize your best when it appears

The past has always been the handmaid of authority.

The end of the world has come often, and continues to come.

If I'd stayed at college I would have become a teacher.