Today you can buy the Dialogues of Plato for less than you would spend on a fifth of whiskey, or Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire for the price of a cheap shirt. You can buy a fair beginning of an education in any bookstore with a good stock of paperback books for less than you would spend on a week's supply of gasoline.

I am somebody. I am me. And I don't need anybody to make me somebody.

A little rest and meditation often saves a lot of riding over rough country.

I'm like a big old hen. I can't cluck too long about the egg I've just laid because I've got 5 more inside me pushing to get out.

A television picture or a movie might be lost forever, but your book is waiting.

To die is nothing. One is here, one is no longer here. It is only at the end one must be able to say 'I was a man'.

I have been nothing, but there is tomorrow.