It used to take me all vacation to grow a new hide in place of the one they flogged off me during school term.

When your opinions start to coincide with those of the majority, it is time to reconsider your opinions.

One gains at least two to three times more experience grabbing the tiger by the tail than reading about it in a book.

The timid man yearns for full value and demands a tenth. The bold man strikes for double value and compromises on par.

My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to its institutions or its officeholders. The country is the real thing, the substantial thing, the eternal thing; it is the thing to watch over, and care for, and be loyal to; institutions are extraneous, they are its mere clothing, and clothing can wear out, become ragged, cease to be comfortable, cease to protect the body from winter, disease, and death.

If the world ends, I'll just head on down to Kentucky because they're always 20 years behind.

The writing begins when you’ve finished. Only then do you know what you’re trying to say.