Motherhood is an essential, difficult, and full-time job. Women who do not wish to be mothers should not have babies.

We judge individual man and women as we do nations and races -- by the character of their achievement and by their achievement of character.

To the question: Wilderness, who needs it? Doc would say: Because we like the taste of freedom, comrades. Because we like the smell of danger. But, thought Hayduke, what about the smell of fear, Dad?

What ideal, immutable Platonic cloud could equal the beauty and perfection of any ordinary everyday cloud floating over, say, Tuba City, Arizona, on a hot day in June?

Scientific method: There's a madness in the method.

A cowboy is a farm boy in leather britches and a comical hat.

An empty man is full of himself.