Caddy got the box and set it on the floor and opened it. It was full of stars. When I was still, they were still. When I moved, they glinted and sparkled. I hushed.

A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you'd think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune

I'd have wasted a lot of time and trouble before I learned that the best way to take all people, black or white, is to take them for what they think they are, then leave them alone.

Women do have an affinity for evil, for believing that no woman is to be trusted, but that some men are too innocent to protect themselves.

It's always the idle habits you acquire which you will regret. Father said that. That Christ was not crucified: he was worn away by a minute clicking of little wheels. That had no sister.

If all the businesses in town are run like country businesses, You are going to have a country town

Some days in late August at home are like this, the air thin and eager like this, with something in it sad and nostalgic and familiar...

Amid the pointing and the horror, the clean flame.

It's not when you realise that nothing can help you - religion, pride, anything - it's when you realise that you don't need any aid.

Unconditional love is most beautiful in any culture, in any society.

I have only dwelt in my thoughts.

You ought to pray for grace to handle the uncertainties in life.

The best parenting strives to educate children in how to live -- enthusiastically, compassionately, without greed, striving for a better world.

Pleasure is nought but virtue's gayer name-- I wrong her still, I rate her worth too low: Virtue the root, and pleasure is the flow'r.

Here's proof that if you live long enough, anything is possible.

Get the facts. Ask questions and listen intently to the answers before responding.

In the Depression we had to divert corn acreage.

It's no disgrace to be a private, you know. Socrates was a plain foot soldier, a hoplite.

Agents are still asking for millions of dollars for actors that don't sell one ticket.