Sometimes we feel the loss of a prejudice as a loss of vigor.

It is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt.

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.

An easygoing person is probably more accessible to the realization of eternity--the endless flow of life and death--than one who takes his prospects and duties overseriously. It is the overserious who are truly frivolous.

It is the around-the-corner brand of hope that prompts people to action, while the distant hope acts as an opiate.

The poor on the borderline of starvation live purposeful lives. To be engaged in a desperate struggle for food and shelter is to be wholly free from a sense of futility

Where there is the necessary technical skill to move mountains, there is no need for the faith that moves mountains.