Eloquence is the essential thing in a speech, not information.

It is not a new thing for a thoroughly good and well-meaning preacher´s soft heart to run away with his soft head.

Wine is a clog to the pen, not an inspiration.

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

Every civilization carries the seeds of its own destruction, and the same cycle shows in them all. The Republic is born, flourishes, decays into plutocracy, and is captured by the shoemaker whom the mercenaries and millionaires make into a king. The people invent their oppressors, and the oppressors serve the function for which they are invented.

Optimist: day-dreamer in his small clothes.

Denial ain't just a river in Egypt.