Courage is the human virtue that counts most-courage to act on limited knowledge and insufficient evidence. That's all any of us have.

Americans are like a rich father who wishes he knew how to give his son the hardships that made him rich.

It takes all sorts of in and outdoor schooling To get adapted to my kind of fooling.

All there is to writing is having ideas. To learn to write is to learn to have ideas.

I only hope that when I am free, as they are free to go in quest, of the knowledge beyond the bounds of life, it may not seem better to me to rest.

Yes, and even for the past...that it will turn out to have been all right for what it was. Something I can accept. Mistakes made by the self I had to be or was not able to be.

We can make a little order where we are, and then the big sweep of history on which we can have no effect doesn't overwhelm us. We do it with colors, with a garden, with the furnishings of a room, or with sounds and words. We make a little form, and we gain composure.