Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes.

I feel coming on a strange disease - humility.

From time to time the continent shifts, and everything that isn't fastened down slides into Southern California.

Get the habit of analysis - analysis will in time enable synthesis to become your habit of mind.

I'm against war. Always have been, always will be. And everything connected with it, is anathema to me. I have never considered it necessary.

The cultural influences in our country are like the floo floo bird. I am referring to the peculiar and especial bird who always flew backward. To keep the wind out of its eyes? No. Just because it didn't give a darn where it was going, but just had to see where it had been.

Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.