Though children can accept adults as adults, adults can never accept children as anything but adults too.

Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.

Like a fellow running from or toward a gun ain't got time to worry whether the word for what he is doing is courage or cowardice.

I know now that what makes a fool is an inability to take even his own good advice.

And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as honest man can be tortured into telling a lie.

ingenuity was apparently given man in order that he may supply himself in crises with shapes and sounds with which to guard himself from truth.

Time, the spaces of light and dark, had long since lost orderliness.

Memory believes before knowing remembers.[Light in August]

It is a happy faculty of the mind to slough that which conscience refuses to assimilate.

When it's a matter of not-do, I reckon a man can trust himself for advice. But when it comes to a matter of doing, I reckon a fellow had better listen to all the advice he can get.

It is the man who all his life has been self-convicted of veracity whose lies find quickest credence.

What is your idea of earthly happiness? To be vindicated in my own lifetime.

Republicans are men of narrow vision, who are afraid of the future.

Nature is a picture waiting to be taken.

The U.S. military is not war weary. Our military draws strength from confronting our enemies when clear policy objectives are set and we are fully resourced for the fight.

Ink is the transcript of thought.

The hoary joke in the literary world, based on 'Dreams From My Father,' was that if things had worked out differently for Barack Obama, he could have made it as a writer.

If you have a weakness, everyone sees it all over the country and the other team is going to exploit it.

In the first place, I don't think [Donald] Trump has changed that much from what em. I never took him serious highway this [immigration policy].

He who denies the existence of God, has some reason for wishing that God did not exist.

There aren't many strong or charismatic candidates today, because many people can't withstand the scrutiny.