Our people are good people; our people are kind people. Pray God some day kind people won't all be poor.

When you know a friend is there you do not go to see him. Then he's gone and you blast your conscience to shreds that you did not see him.

It's so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.

A plan is a real thing, and things projected are experienced. A plan once made and visualized becomes reality along with other realities—never to be destroyed but easily to be attacked.

Once you have lived in New York and made it your home, no place else is good enough

The quality of owning freezes you forever in "I," and cuts you off forever from the "we.

A large drop of sun lingered on the horizon and then dripped over and was gone, and the sky was brilliant over the spot where it had gone, and a torn cloud, like a bloody rag, hung over the spot of its going. And dusk crept over the sky from the eastern horizon, and darkness crept over the land from the east.