America is a land where men govern, but women rule.

What a man is is the basis owhat he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.

I am ready any time. Do not keep me waiting.

Reasoning with a child is fine, if you can reach the child's reason without destroying your own.

The purpose of writing is to hold a mirror to nature, but too much today is written from small mirrors in vanity cases.

What happiness is, no person can say for another. But no one, I am convinced, can be happy who lives only for himself. The joy of living comes from immersion in something that we know to be bigger, better, more enduring and worthier than we are.

It is in the hard, hard rockpile labor of seeking to win, hold, or deserve a reader's interest that the pleasant agony of writing again comes in.