When one has the right swing and enthusiasm, selling is not unlike hunting, a veritable sport. To scare up the game by preliminary talk and to know how long to follow it, to lose your gain through poorly directed argument, to hang on to game that finally eludes, to boldly confront, to quickly circle around, to keep on the trail, tireless and keen, till you have bagged some orders, there is some satisfaction in returning at night, tired of the trail, but proud of the days work done.

There is a wolf in me... - I keep this wolf because the wilderness gave it to me and the wilderness will not let it go.

Poetry is the silence and speech between a wet struggling root of a flower and a sunlit blossom of that flower.

People lie because they don't remember clear what they saw. People lie because they can't help making a story better than it was the way it happened.

Never will a time come when the most marvelous recent invention is as marvelous as a newborn child.

A politician should have three hats. One for throwing into the ring, one for talking through, and one for pulling rabbits out of if elected.

The impact of television on our culture is. . . indescribable. There's a certain sense in which it is nearly as important as the invention of printing.