Nothing in life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it.

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.

What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens.

There is in every human being, I think, a native country of the mind, where, protected by inaccessible barriers, the sensitive dream life may exist safely.

No idea is so antiquated that it was not once modern. No idea is so modern that it will not someday be antiquated.

Theories have nothing to do with life.

What depresses me is the inevitable way the second rate forges ahead and the deserving is left behind.