A farmer's got to be born, same as a fool. You can't make a corn pone out of flour dough by the twistin' of it.

Nothing is more trying than nerves to people who have none.

you could have forgiven my committing a sin if you hadn't feared that I had a committed a pleasure as well.

In the past few years, I have made a thrilling discovery ... that until one is over sixty, one can never really learn the secret of living. One can then begin to live, not simply with the intense part of oneself, but with one's entire being.

Give the young half a chance and they will create their own future, they will even create their own heaven and earth.

The older I grow the more earnestly I feel that the few joys of childhood are the best that life has to give.

Youth is always an enemy to the old.