That is what all poets do: they talk to themselves out loud; and the world overhears them. But it's horribly lonely not to hear someone else talk sometimes.

A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.

The English are not a very spiritual people, so they invented cricket to give them some idea of eternity.

To be a champion you must live like one.

Although I cannot lay an egg, I am a very good judge of omelettes

Brigham Young lived to become immortal in history as an American Moses by leading his people through the wilderness into an unpromised land.

Every child has a right to its own bent. . . . It has a right to find its own way and go its own way, whether that way seems wise or foolish to others, exactly as an adult has. It has a right to privacy as to its own doings and its own affairs as much as if it were its own father.