A rigged convention is one with the other man's delegates in control. An open convention is when your delegates are in control.

The best advice I can give to any young man or young woman upon graduation from school can be summed up in exactly eight words, and they are-be honest with yourself and tell the truth.

Never think oldish thoughts. It's oldish thoughts that make a person old.

As I turned to leave the tent, she said, "Don't worry. Your own mother wouldn't know you."I said, "She never has.

My fake plants died because I did not pretend to water them.

It is impossible for any culture to be sound and healthy without a proper respect and proper regard for the soil.

Most human activities are predicated on the assumption that life goes on. If you take that premise away, what is there left?

I'm up to my ears in unwritten words.

To have a certain new eight-and-a-hal f-minute-old light from the sun-to feel it physically, almost as we taste things-this is where you can work with light like that.

God made us in His own image so that His image would be shown.

Don't be afraid of loneliness, because everything is a door; even loneliness is a door, it opens to somewhere!

I base my calculation on the expectation that luck will be against me.

To learn to play seriously is one of the great secrets of spiritual exploration.