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.

In a time of drastic change, it is the learners who inherit the future.

Self-esteem and self-contempt have specific odors; they can be smelled.

Man was nature's mistake she neglected to finish him and she has never ceased paying for her mistake.

Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for lost faith in ourselves.

Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us.

There is sublime thieving in all giving. Someone gives us all he has and we are his.