I should say sincerity, a deep, great, genuine sincerity, is the first characteristic of all men in any way heroic.

Teach a parrot the terms 'supply and demand' and you've got an economist.

He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.

Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come.

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Endurance is patience concentrated.

I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.

Nature alone is antique, and the oldest art a mushroom.

A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope.

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.

Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.

A real dreamer must have a mutual trust with time.

Death followed by eternity the worst of both worlds. It is a terrible thought.

I don’t like coming over here at night, the girl said. The bayou is scary in the dark, all manner of things running wild out there.

Louisiana is a fresh-air mental asylum.

I went on loving him just the same, and I could never be interested in anyone else.

At high school, instead of the weekly essay, I would write a poem, and the teacher accepted that. The impulse was one of laziness, I'm certain. Poems were shorter than essays.

Our goal is to make the best devices in the world, not to be the biggest.

Purely historical thought is therefore nihilistic: it wholeheartedly accepts the evil of history and in this way is opposed to rebellion.

Politicians cannot alter trends.

The western world, the free world, loses what it cherishes most, and that is freedom and liberty we've seen for a couple of hundred years in this grand experiment that we call democracy.