Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do...Try to be better than yourself.

But Doc had one mental habit he could not get over. When anyone asked a question, Doc thought he wanted to know the answer.

she knew she could help him best by being silent and by being near

How can I teach my boys the value and beauty of language and thus communication when the President himself reads westerns exclusively and cannot put together a simple English sentence? (John Steinbeck, in a private letter written during the Eisenhower administration)

The trash and litter of nature disappears into the ground with the passing of each year, but man's litter has more permanence.

His ear heard more than what was said to him, and his slow speech had overtones not of thought, but of understanding beyond thought.

And this I believe: that the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world. And this I would fight for: the freedom of the mind to take any direction it wishes, undirected. And this I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual. This is what I am and what I am about.