What has miserable, inefficient Mexico...to do with the great mission of peopling the New World with a noble race?

Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.

Happiness, not in another place but this place...not for another hour, but this hour.

We were together. I forget the rest.

Either define the moment or the moment will define you.

Re-examine all that you have been told... dismiss that which insults your soul.

Be curious, not judgmental.

Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes.

Simplicity is the glory of expression.

The truth is simple. If it was complicated, everyone would understand it.

When one reaches out to help another he touches the face of God.

Every endured a hardship is a discipline in the spirit.

Give us men to match our mountains, Give us men to match our plains: Men with empires in their purpose And new eras in their brains.

I have no patience with dinosaurs.

Private life is private life. Off the pitch, there is private life, and the rest is social life, where of course you have to behave responsibly.

You know, that's kind of the thing, I can't freestyle and I used to always wonder why I couldn't, and when I would try once out of every six months, but I was always a great writer!

Artists like Bach and Beethoven erected churches and temples on the heights. I only wantedto build dwellings for men in which they might feel happy and at home

The older I grow the less I esteem mere ideas. In politics, particularly, they are transient and unimportant. . . . There are only men who have character and men who lack it.

Taking baths in Africa was a real challenge at times. I got real dirty, and sometimes I stayed like that for 2 days. That was pretty hard going.

The activity of art is... as important as the activity of language itself, and as universal.

To be really happy and really safe, one ought to have at least two or three hobbies, and they must all be real.