History records the large events or the general condition of society, but only an individual can put down the way of life in a small town.

Christmas is a bridge. We need bridges as the river of time flows past. Today's Christmas should mean creating happy hours for tomorrow and reliving those of yesterday.

Traveling is all very well if you can get home at night. I would be willing to go around the world if I came back in time to light the candles and set the table for supper.

Father was the most unreconciled taxpayer I ever knew.

My general attitude toward life when I first get up is of deep suspicion, verging on hatred. ... I am simply basted together until after breakfast.

We need time to dream, time to remember, and time to reach the infinite. Time to be.

Pride may go before a fall, but jealousy goes before destruction.