As a very young man growing up in Texas, usually I got a shotgun or cowboy boots for Christmas.

It is almost impossible to remember how tragic a place the world is when one is playing golf.

Most human beings are quite likable if you don't see too much of them.

We forget that Socrates was famed for wisdom not because he was omniscient but because he realized at the age of seventy that he still knew nothing.

We cannot get happiness by striving after it, and yet with an effort we can impart it.

The belief in the possibility of a short decisive war appears to be one of the most ancient and dangerous of human illusions.

It may be that all games are silly. But then, so are humans.

No man is uninteresting when his hat is blown off and he has to scuttle after it down the street.

Chekhov will seek out the key situation in the life of a cabman or a charwoman, and make them glow for a brief moment in the tender light of his sympathy.

There are travelers who fear to own delicate hands more than to meet a lion, and soldiers who would rather lose a limb than gain a beautiful nose by artificial methods.

A boy in love is not mainly a calf but a poet.

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The living take a part of the dead with them, carrying them around in their minds, like a song that lingers after the music has been turned off.

Emotion will never seize to prevail logic.

Some companies out there quote a start of production that is substantially in advance of when customers get their cars.

A man seeking publicity works with the noise of voice; A man working for humanity seeks the silence of rejoice in life.

Christianity means a lot more than church membership.

I am almost convinced (quite contrary to opinion I started with) that species are not (it is like confessing a murder) immutable.

The essentials of poetry are rhythm, dance, and the human voice.

The appreciation of the merits of art (of the emotions it conveys) depends upon an understanding of the meaning of life...

I am tied down with single words. But you wander off; you slip away; you rise up higher, with words and words in phrases.