There comes a time in every rightly constructed boy's life when he has a raging desire to go somewhere and dig for hidden treasure.

Life ain't about how fast you run or how high you climb, It's all about how good you bounce. A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.

As for the dinosaur - But Noah's conscience was easy; it was not named in his cargo list and he and the boys were not aware that there was such a creature. He said he could not blame himself for not knowing about the dinosaur, because it was an American animal and America had not then been discovered.

If the world comes to an end, I want to be in Cincinnati. Everything comes there ten years later.

Until I came to New Mexico, I never realized how much beauty water adds to a river.

Going to law is losing a cow for the sake of a cat.

What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself. All day long, the mill of his brain is grinding, and his thoughts, not those of other things, are his history. These are his life, and they are not written. Everyday would make a whole book of 80,000 words -- 365 books a year. Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man -- the biography of the man himself cannot be written.