The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.

My writing is done in railroad yards while waiting for a freight, in the fields while waiting for a truck, and at noon after lunch. Towns are too distracting.

Add a few drops of venom to a half truth and you have an absolute truth.

I can never forget that one of the most gifted, best educated nations in the world, of its own free will, surrendered its fate into the hands of a maniac.

Social improvement is attained more readily by a concern with the quality of results than with the purity of motives.

Craving, not having, is the mother of a reckless giving of oneself.

To the old, the new is usually bad news.