You said, 'They’re harmless dreamers and they’re loved by the people.' 'What,' I asked you, 'is harmless about a dreamer, and what,' I asked you, 'is harmless about the love of the people? Revolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams.

Time doesn't take away from true friendship, nor does separation.

At the age of fourteen I discovered writing as an escape from a world of reality in which I felt acutely uncomfortable.

Perhaps the most vivid recollection of my youth is that of the local wheelmen, led by my father, stopping at our home to eat pone, sip mint juleps, and flog the field hands. This more than anything cultivated my life-long aversion to bicycles.

Being disappointed is one thing and being discouraged is something else. I am disappointed but I am not discouraged.

attempting to find in motion what was lost in space.

A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.