Wherever they’s a fight so hungry people can eat, I’ll be there. Wherever they’s a cop beatin’ up a guy, I’ll be there. If Casy knowed, why, I’ll be in the way guys yell when they’re mad an’—I’ll be in the way kids laugh when they’re hungry n’ they know supper’s ready. An’ when our folks eat the stuff they raise an’ live in the houses they build—why, I’ll be there.

It requires self-esteem to receive-not self-love but just a pleasant acquaintance and liking for oneself.

Write freely and as rapidly as possible and throw the whole thing on paper.

It sometimes happens that what you feel is not returned for one reason or another-but that does not make your feeling less valuable and good.

Sectional football games have the glory and the despair of war, and when a Texas team takes the field against a foreign state, it is an army with banners.

There is no term comparable to green thumbs to apply to such a mechanic, but there should be. For there are men who can look, listen, tap, make an adjustment, and a machine works.

He had an idea that even when beaten he could steal a little victory by laughing at defeat.