It's almost impossible to read a fine thing without wanting to do a fine thing.

But most important of all, the truth, that dangerous stuff, became beautiful and more precious.

Socialism never took root in America.

A boy gets to be a man when a man is needed. Remember this thing. I have known boys forty years old because there was no need for a man.

And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.

I ought to of shot that dog myself, George. I shouldn't ought to of let no stranger shoot my dog.

A man without words is a man without thought.