What geography can give all Middle Westerners, along with the fresh water and topsoil, if they let it, is awe for an Edenic continent stretching forever in all directions. Makes you religious. Takes your breath away.

They like life alright, but that they would like it even better if they could know that it was going to end sometime.

Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.

No moral value is greater than humanity.

The feeling about a soldier is, when all is said and done, he wasn't really going to do very much with his life anyway. The example usually is: he wasn't going to compose Beethoven's Fifth.

And Lot's wife, of course, was told not to look back where all those people and their homes had been. But she did look back, and I love her for that, because it was so human. So she was turned into a pillar of salt. So it goes.

Think of what a paradise this world would be if men were kind and wise.