I also believe that writing becomes worthwhile and vitalized only through a full and exciting life.

Books are only the shadow and life the real thing. I believe this as strongly as any belief I hold.

Nobody can make a monkey out of anyone who isn't a monkey to start with.

If you can't do, you had best shut up.

How old are you Johnny" she asked. Sixteen." And what's that-a boy or a man?" He laughed. "A boy in time of peace and a man in time of war.

In old age the secret springs of human nature are apt to come out.

We give all we have, lives, property, safety, skill...we fight, we die, for a simple thing. Only that a man can stand up.

Most American heroes of the Revolutionary period are by now two men, the actual man and the romantic image. Some are even three men - the actual man, the image, and the debunked remains.

they reminded me of the biggest liar I ever knew personally. Was a farmer, too. Reputation of pretty good farmer at that, but he lied so he had to hire another man to call his pigs.

Hundreds would die, but not the thing they died for.

But why think about that when all the golden lands ahead of you and all kinds of unforseen events wait lurking to surprise you and make you glad you're alive to see?

Every challenge is an opportunity for spiritual growth.

If you feel like a failure in any area of your life, then you are in need of some self-forgiveness.

And, even yet, I dare not let it languish, Dare not indulge in memory's rapturous pain; Once drinking deep of that divinest anguish, How could I seek the empty world again?

When Thomas Edison worked late into the night on the electric light, he had to do it by gas lamp or candle. I'm sure it made the work seem that much more urgent.

I do not agree with this notion that somehow if I go to try to attract votes and to lead people toward a better tomorrow somehow I get subscribed to some-some doctrine gets subscribed to me.

It's an honor playing for Bobby Cox.

My grandfather always told me that it is no good lying on a hospital bed saying, 'I had the right of way', ... That's one of the reasons I was so pleased that the boys could do the IAM test as well.

I would do away with Education, Commerce, and let's see - the third one I can't. I can't. Oops.

I never did a single wise thing in the whole course of my existence, although I have written many which have been thought so.