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.

Education is everywhere, prompting one to think, to consider, to remember.

You stick your finger in the water and you pull it out, and that is how much of a hole you leave when you're gone.

A book is valuable not only for what it says but for what it makes you think, or causes you to remember. No matter what you wish to do or become there are books to teach you, help you, guide you.

A man who says he has never been scared is either lying or else he's never been any place or done anything.

Ancestry is most important to those who have done nothing themselves.

One who returns to a place sees it with new eyes. Although the place may not have changed, the viewer inevitably has. For the first time things invisible before become suddenly visible.