A great book begins with an idea; a great life, with a determination.

No man ever raised a monument to a cynic or wrote a poem about a man without faith.

A ship does not sail with yesterday's wind.

In the United States we have concentrated tremendous sums of money on the educational plant, seemingly with the idea that the right number of buildings will turn out the right number of graduates. Yet the teachers who actually instruct the future citizens of our country are more often than not miserably paid. If in the future we find ourselves with a lot of fourth-rate citizens, we have only ourselves to blame.

I have told many, yet when I go down that last trail, I know there will be a thousand stories hammering at my skull, demanding to be told.

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

The dancer becomes the dance. And I am the writing.