In uncertainty I am certain that underneath their topmost layers of frailty men want to be good and want to be loved.

In Spanish there is a word for which I can't find a counterword in English. It is the verb VACILAR... It does not mean vacillating at all. If one is vacilando, he is going somewhere, but does not greatly care whether or not he gets there, although he has direction.

But I have a new love for that glittering instrument, the human soul. It is a lovely and unique thing in the universe. It is always attacked and never destroyed - because 'Thou mayest.

In early June the world of leaf and blade and flowers explodes, and every sunset is different.

People like you to be something, preferably what they are.

There ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue. There's just stuff people do. It's all part of the same thing. And some of the things folks do is nice, and some ain't nice, but that's as far as any man got a right to say.

I am a little man and this is a little town, but there must be a spark in little men that can burst into flame.