It has long been my desire to be a little worm in the fair apple of Progress.

Dare to be strong and courageous. That is the road. Venture anything.

The object of art is not to make salable pictures. It is to save yourself.

The lives of people are like young trees in a forest. They are being choked by climbing vines. The vines are old thoughts and beliefs planted by dead men.

You won’t arrive. It is an endless search.

There is within every human being a deep well of thinking over which a heavy iron lid is kept clamped.

I think the whole glory of writing lies in the fact that it forces us out of ourselves and into the lives of others.

The thing of course, is to make yourself alive. Most people remain all of their lives in a stupor.

I go about looking at horses and cattle. They eat grass, make love, work when they have to, bear their young. I am sick with envy of them.

It was a cold day but the sun was out and the trees were like great bonfires against gray distant fields and hills.

The whole object of education is...to develop the mind. The mind should be a thing that works.

No more crying. Tears only cause destructivefloods. When you are sad, you build a boat.

It is dangerous to be so busy that you have no time to wait on God.

In times of panic man seems to exchange his soul for a tail.

If you wish to study men you must not neglect to mix with the society of children.

Many of us in Nashville accepted nonviolence as a way of life, a way of living, not simply as a technique or a tactic.

Personally - I also continued my education while I was coaching, attending night school and summer school, taking correspondence courses, etc.

Without armaments peace cannot be kept; wars are waged not only to repel injustice but also to establish a firm peace.

I was the kid that grew up watching Bette Davis films.

Nothing would improve newspaper criticism so much as the knowledge that it was to be read by men too hardy to acquiesce in the authoritative statement of the reviewer.

Enjoy your work and work for whom you admire.