There's a responsibility in being a person. It's more than just taking up space where air would be.

Don't worry about losing. If it is right, it happens - The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away.

Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.

The free exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world.

And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.

What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.

I believe a strong woman may be stronger than a man, particularly if she happens to have love in her heart. I guess a loving woman is indestructible.

When two people meet, each one is changed by the other so you've got two new people.

Writers are a little below clowns and a little above trained seals.

This I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual.

If you understand each other you will be kind to each other.

Back then I could not understand one word of what I read.Reading did, however, give me heart. Even if you cannot understand what you are reading you can get something from books.

To find the inner peace be utmost honest to yourself.

Take your pleasure seriously.

To describe happiness is to diminish it.

It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.

The State dominates the Nation because it alone represents it.

I've been complimented enough and asked to run for various offices out here in Utah, but right now, I'm not interested. I don't know that I have the stomach for it.

Don't catch the bad and infectious attitudes of others.

nobody is such a fool as to moider away his time in the slip-slop conversation of a pack of women.

My 20s were a time where I made it; my 30s were when I was away, confused, and trying to figure it all out.