We do not fight for the real but for shadows we make. A flag is a piece of cloth and a word is a sound, But we make them something neither cloth nor a sound, Totems of love and hate, black sorcery-stones.

Sometimes a sign or a quote is simply interesting by itself and does not require anything beyond being framed on a page.

Occasionally I encounter people getting into their cars who will say, "Oh, you haven't been walking lately" - like I'm a symbol of the ancient art of walking!

If two New Hampshiremen aren't a match for the devil, we might as well give the country back to the Indians.

Dreaming men are haunted men.

Our earth is but a small star in a great universe. Yet of it we can make, if we choose, a planet unvexxed by war, untroubled by hunger or fear, undivided by senseless distinctions of race, color or theory.

I had lost something in my youth and made money instead.