It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.

Behold, the fool saith, "Put not all thine eggs in the one basket" - which is but a matter of saying, "Scatter your money and your attention"; but the wise man saith, "Pull all your eggs in the one basket and - WATCH THAT BASKET." - Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar

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

It is governed by minorities, seldom or never by majorities. It suppresses its feelings and its beliefs and follows the handful that makes the most noise. Sometimes the noisy handful is right, sometimes wrong, but no matter, the crowd follows it.

One must travel, to learn. Every day, now, old Scriptural phrases that never possessed any significance for me before, take to themselves a meaning.

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

In all my travels the thing that has impressed me the most is the universal brotherhood of man-what there is of it.