And you prate of the wealth of nations, as if it were bought and sold, The wealth of nations is men, not silk and cotton and gold.

I do not know beneath what sky nor on what seas shall be thy fate; I only know it shall be high, I only know it shall be great.

I am sick of four walls and a ceiling I have need of the sky, I have business with the grass.

Spring in the world! And all things are made new!

Ye who made war that your ships Should lay to at the beck of no nation, Make war now on Murder, that slips The leash of her hounds of damnation; Ye who remembered the Alamo, Remember the Maine!

Our cheer goes back to them, the valiant dead! Laurels and roses on their graves to-day, lilies and laurels over them we lay, and violets o'er each unforgotten head.

For 't is always fair weather When good fellows get together With a stein on the table and a good song ringing clear.

I am fevered with the sunset, I am fretful with the bay, For the wander-thirst is on me And my soul is in Cathay.

The East and the West in the spring of the world shall blend / As a man and a woman that plight / Their troth in the warm spring night.

Who would not rather flounder in the fight than not have known the glory of the fray?

Nor love they least Who strike with right good will To vanquish ill And fight God's battle upward from the beast.

Procrastinate strategically... Procrastination may be the enemy of productivity but it can be a valuable resource for creativity.

I find it flattering to be compared to Tige

Polar exploration is at once the cleanest and most isolated way of having a bad time which has been devised.

Work is nearly always a torture. If I could find something else I would be much happier, because I could use this other interest as a form of relaxation. Now I cannot relax.

He [Earl Scruggs] was really cool because he was very quiet, and he wouldn't say much, but then he would come out with a quip that was like so perfect and so brilliant, very smart.

It's not that we don't have enough scoundrels to curse; it's that we don't have enough good men to curse them.

The children right now, the young children, everybody should go to a martial arts school. Why? Because as soon as they go to a martial arts school, they learn discipline.

What you need is sustained outrage...there's far too much unthinking respect given to authority.

I try not to eat too much beef. I try to eat healthy.

Even if all parts of a problem seem to fit together like the pieces of a jigsaw puzzle, one has to remember that the probable need not necessarily be the truth and the truth not always probable.