It is very funny about money. The thing that differentiates man from animals is money. All animals have the same emotions and the same ways as men. Anybody who has lots of animals around knows that. But the thing no animal can do is count, and the thing no animal can know is money.

There is no passion more dominant and instinctive in the human spirit than the need of the country to which one belongs.... The time comes when nothing in the world is so important as a breath of one's own particular climate. If it were one's last penny it would be used for that return passage.

From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional.

I always wanted to be historical, from almost a baby on, I felt that way about it.

I certainly do care for you Jeff Campbell less than you are always thinking and much more than you are ever knowing

Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.

... anybody is as their land and air is. Anybody is as the sky is low or high, the air heavy or clear and anybody is as there is wind or no wind there. It is that which makes them and the arts they make and the work they do and the way they eat and the way they drink and the way they learn and everything.