Why don't you go on west to California? There's work there, and it never gets cold. Why, you can reach out anywhere and pick an orange. Why, there's always some kind of crop to work in. Why don't you go there?

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

I wonder how many people I've looked at all my life and never seen.

We spend our time searching for security and hate it when we get it.

Fearful and unprepared, we have assumed lordship over the life or death of the whole world, of all living things.

[He] fell right into the oldest conviction in the world-- that the girl you are in love with can't possibly be anything but true and honest.

I have starved and it isn't nearly as bad as is generally supposed. Four days and a half was my longest stretch. Maybe there are pains that come later. Personally I think terror is the painful part of starvation.