One of the very important things that have to be learned around the time dying becomes a real prospect is to recognize those occasions when we have been useful in the world.

If you need three adjectives to describe something, then you've probably chosen the wrong something.

Only by moving in the direction you least trust can you be saved

There is nothing like a man for bringing out the animal in an animal.

Time can be such a menace to a man. By this age do that; by that age do better.

The Constitution is more than literature, but as literature, it is primarily a work of the imagination. It imagined a country: fantastic. More fantastic still, it imagined a country full of people imagining themselves.

Every writing teacher gives the subliminal message, every time they teach: 'Your life counts for something.' In no other subject that I know of is that message given.