The whole problem is to establish communication with ones self.

No one can write decently who is distrustful of the reader's intelligence or whose attitude is patronizing.

Our vegetable garden is coming along well, with radishes and beans up, and we are less worried about revolution that we used to be.

Life's accumulation is more discouraging than life itself, when stirred up.

The Supreme Court said nothing about silliness, but I suspect it may play more of a role than one might suppose. People are, if anything, more touchy about being thought silly than they are about being thought unjust... Probably the first slave ship, with Negroes lying in chains on its decks, seemed commonsensical to the owners who operated it and to the planters who patronized it. But such a vessel would not be in the realm of common sense today. The only sense that is common, in the long run, is the sense of change.

There is a period near the beginning of every man's life when he has little to cling to except his unmanageable dream, little to support him except good health, and nowhere to go but all over the place.

America is now liberty-conscious. In a single generation it has progressed from being toothbrush-conscious, to being air-minded, to being liberty-conscious.