Father and son are natural enemies and each is happier and more secure in keeping it that way.

If he needs a million acres to make him feel rich, seems to me he needs it 'cause he feels awful poor inside hisself, and if he's poor in hisself, there ain't no million acres gonna make him feel rich, an' maybe he's disappointed that nothin' he can do 'll make him feel rich.

A wife is like a children's movie; always under-appreciated and without either, life would be incomplete.

I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.

I had seen so many begin to pack their lives in cotton woool, smother their impulses, hood their passions, and gradually retire from their manhood into a kind of spiritual and physical semi-invalidism. In this they are encouraged by wives and relatives, and it's such a sweet trap.

Strength and success; they are above morality, above criticism. It seems then, that it is not what you do, but how you do it and what you call it.

I wonder why progress looks so much like destruction.