I say, when your hair turns gray and your children think they know who you are, do the thing that shakes up who you think you are, even who you had prided yourself on being. When all those around you say they simply don't recognize you any longer, that's the real compliment.

Every first draft is perfect, because all a first draft has to do is exist.

Critical thinking is to a liberal education as faith is to religion. ... the converse was true also - faith is to a liberal education as critical thinking is to religion, irrelevant and even damaging.

Good intentions are wicked! As far as I can see, all they lead to are lies and delusions.

A horse herd was, in its very essence, the manifestation of the expression 'It's always something.

You cannot be an egomaniac on the horse. If you lose your temper and start beating him, either you will destroy him, or he will destroy you. As soon as you start riding horses seriously, you're being disciplined on a daily basis about how ignorant you are and what there is left for you to learn.

How will you know a good farmer when you meet him? He will not ask you for any favors.