I have wondered why is it that some people are less affected and torn by the verities of life and death that others.

Americans are much more American than they are Northerners, Southerners, Westerners, or Easterners ... California Chinese, Boston Irish, Wisconsin German, yes, Alabama Negroes, have more in common than they have apart ... The American identity is an exact and provable thing.

The dairy man had a Ph.D. in mathematics, and he must have had some training in philosophy. He liked what he was doing and he didn't want to be somewhere else - one of the few contented people I met in my whole journey.

The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business.

It is not good to want a thing too much. It sometimes drives the luck away. You must want it just enough, and you must be very tactful with Gods or the gods.

Thou mayest rule over sin.

The trash and litter of nature disappears into the ground with the passing of each year, but man's litter has more permanence.