I see too many men delay their exits with a sickly, slow reluctance to leave the stage. It's bad theater as well as bad living.

Give a critic an inch, he'll write a play.

For it is my opinion that we enclose and celebrate the freaks of our nation and our civilization. Yellowstone National Park is no more representative of America than is Disneyland.

Saints can spring from any soil.

He was born in fury and he lived in lightning. Tom came headlong into life. He was a giant in joy and enthusiasms. He didn't discover the world and its people, he created them. When he read his father's books, he was the first. He lived in a world shining and fresh and as uninspected as Eden on the sixth day. His mind plunged like a colt in a happy pasture, and when later the world put up fences, he plunged against the wire, and when the final stockade surrounded him, he plunged right through it and out. And as he was capable of giant joy, so did he harbor huge sorrow.

The American girl makes a servant of her husband and then finds him contemptible for being a servant

The object of love is the best and most beautiful. Try to live up to it.