The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader.

Freud was way off base in considering sex the fundamental motivation. The ruling passion in men is minding each other's business.

The best thing we're put here for's to see; The strongest thing that's given us to see with's a telescope. Someone in every town, seems to me, owes it to the town to keep one.

When I see birches bend to left and right... I like to think some boy's been swinging them.

For, dear me, why abandon a belief, Merely because it ceases to be true, Cling to it long enough, and not a doubt, It will turn true again, for so it goes.

Belief is better than anything else, and it is best when rapt - above paying its respects to anybody's doubt whatsoever.

I'm not a teacher, but an awakener.