It's a queer business, making oneself blind.

To see that your life is a story while you're in the middle of living it may be a help to living it well.

Stories are what death thinks he puts an end to. He can't understand that they end in him, but they don't end with him.

With eye and hand and breath and will.

A child is a child.

"Young men wish always to dream of what they have lost." "And old men?" "Of what they have not found."

Even if you don't have the authorities - and frankly I didn't have the authorities for anything - if you take charge, people will follow.

How do you caution a fawn about a cigarette a motorist has just flipped from his car window into a patch of yellow grass, or tell a sparrow that winged creatures eventually plummet to earth?

Victory has 1,000 fathers; defeat has 1,000 kibitzers.

Mothers support certain illusions about their children, and one of my illusions was that I liked who I was, because she did. When she passed away, so did that idea.

How we use the knowledge we gain determines our progress on earth, in space or on the moon. Your library is a storehouse for mind and spirit. Use it well.

I think there's a myth that people feel, that people of success are never fearful, that we're never challenged, that we have some supernova - no, we're like everybody else.

I want the world to get a feel of me, showing them the way I am and the way I get down.