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.

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.

A man can learn a lot if he listens, and if I didn't learn anything else I was learning how much I didn't know.

Few of us ever live in the present. We are forever anticipating what is to come or remembering what has gone.

Actually, all education is self-education. A teacher is only a guide, to point out the way, and no school, no matter how excellent, can give you education. What you receive is like the outlines in a child’s coloring book. You must fill in the colors yourself.

Adventure is nothing but a romantic name for trouble.

Sometimes we have the dream but we are not ourselves ready for the dream. We have to grow to meet it.