Do not write merely to be understood. Write so you cannot possibly be misunderstood.

Let any man speak long enough, he will get believers.

Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.

Every child can remember laying his head in the grass, staring into the infinitesimal forest and seeing it grow populous with fairy armies.

It is better to travel hopefully than to arrive.

Some people swallow the universe like a pill; they travel on through the world, like smiling images pushed from behind.

I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered.