It would take a hell of a wife to beat no wife at all.

Do you know what happens with people who cannot govern themselves? That's right. Others come in to govern for them.

In history there are no control groups. There is no one to tell us what might have been. We weep over the might have been, but there is no might have been. There never was.

Only now is the child finally divested of all that he has been. His origins are become remote as is his destiny and not again in all the world's turning will there be terrains so wild and barbarous to try whether the stuff of creation may be shaped to man's will or whether his own heart is not another kind of clay.

And in the dream I knew that he was goin on ahead and that he was fixin to make a fire somewhere out there in all that dark and all that cold and I knew that whenever I got there he would be there. And then I woke up.

The passing of armies and the passing of sands in the desert are one.

When the lies are all told and forgot the truth will be their yet.