Before you begin a thing, remind yourself that difficulties and delays quite impossible to foresee are ahead. If you could see them clearly, naturally you could do a great deal to get rid of them but you can't. You can only see one thing clearly and that is your goal. Form a mental vision of that and cling to it through thick and thin.

To be an American is to move on, as if we could outrun change. To attach oneself to place is to surrender to it, and suffer with it.

Men are more conventional than women and much slower to change their ideas.

It's all so beautiful . . . the spring . . . and books and music and fires. . . . Why aren't they enough?

Peace - that was the other name for home.

Not money, or success, or position or travel or love makes happiness,--service is the secret.

Only Christ could have brought us all together, in this place, doing such absurd but necessary things.