I want to leave something behind when I go; some small legacy of truth, some word that will shine in a dark place.

Chivalry is like a line of credit. You can get plenty of it when you do not need it.

I think this is the greatest and best country in all the world, with its great sunlit spaces and its long long roads, and best of all the roads that are not made yet, and the stories that no one has told because they are too busy living them.

Children are great idealists, until the stupidity of their elders puts out the fires of the aspirations.

A wound in a young heart is like a wound in a young tree. It does not grow out. It grows in.

it makes a great difference to a speaker whether he has something to say, or has to say something.

The middle years of life come on like thunder.