Christmas it too large to be tucked away in the toe of a child's stocking.

America is a tune. It must be sung together.

Turning the other cheek is a kind of moral jiu-jitsu.

New York is the capital, the national headquarters of homelessness.... No one feels he belongs here.

I have seen that Man moves over with each new generation into a bigger body, more awful, more reverent and more free than he has had before.

What was invented two thousand years ago was the spirit of Christianity.

The great man is the man who can get himself made and who will get himself made out of anything he finds at hand.

We may have hell if we have war, and we may have hell if we have peace. But if we have no vision for what we do, we have hell anyway.

Crowds speak in heroes.

No man living in a world as interesting as this ever writes a book if he can help it.

It is never the machines that are dead. It is only the mechanically-minded men that are dead.

I gain strength from postive thought and from the daily conversation with God.

My dad was a truck driver, and from the time I was knee high to a grapevine, I was driving a truck.

A writer's ambition should be to trade a hundred contemporary readers for ten readers in ten years' time and for one reader in a hundred years' time.

I kind of like that romantic image of being in a rocker with my family gathered around, all these generations in one room, listening intently to my stories.

courage is the gift of character

There aint any news in being good. You might write the doings of all the convents of the world on the back of a postage stamp, and have room to spare.

If you have your wife, and you are proud of something she's done, wouldn't you go and support her in something? That is what I was trying to do.

I grew up in a small place and left it when I was quite young and entered the bigger world.

I am an expert of electricity. My father occupied the chair of applied electricity at the state prison.

We've both been married before and our previous experiences made us fearful of commitment.