Nature is thought immersed in matter. . .

A candid spirit is mightier than the most persistent dogmatism.

The less routine the more life.

To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.

First find the man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in others.

Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.

I consider it the best part of an education to have been born and brought up in the country.

Books are the most mannerly of companions, accessible at all times, in all moods, frankly declaring the author's mind, without offense.

A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.

Our ideals are our better selves.

Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.

Think of it. Going to sleep and waking up later in a science fiction future. It'll be fantastic. The shock and the wonder of it.

Politicians are played by what they say and they don't do

I love talking about Kennedy assassination...a great archetypal example of how totalitarian government...sorry, wrong meeting.

Whatever is your greatest joy and treasure, that is your god.

And when Hugh would grow progressively Gandhi on me, I'd remind him that these were pests---disease carriers who feasted upon the dead and then came indoors to dance upon our silverware.

Between me and life is a faint glass. No matter how sharply I see and understand life, I cannot touch it.

Change the leader, change the organization.

Paul McCartney, one of the best songwriters of all time, has only produced manure for the past 25 years.

People, more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed.

Let me tell you something my friend. Hope is a dangerous thing. Hope can drive a man insane.