Manuals have their uses ... but they are not to be confused with living.

It's just this: that there are places we all come from-deep-rooty-common places- that makes us who we are. And we disdain them or treat them lightly at our peril. We turn our backs on them at the risk of self-contempt. There is a sense in which we need to go home again-and can go home again. Not to recover home, no. But to sanctify memory.

You can't always explain everything you do to everybody, you know.

All I really need to know... I learned in kindergarten.

Remember, most of us got something for nothing the first time just by showing up here at birth. Now we have to qualify.

If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience.

Anything not worth doing is worth not doing well.