Have a chance to create a society to match its scenery.

It is the beginning of wisdom when you recognize that the best you can do is choose which rules you want to live by, and it's persistent and aggravated imbecility to pretend you can live without any.

Expose a child to a particular environment at this susceptible time and he will perceive in the shapes of that environment until he dies.

Wisdom. . .is knowing what you have to accept.

National parks are the best idea we ever had. Absolutely American, absolutely democratic, they reflect us at our best rather than our worst.

There is nothing like a doorbell to precipitate the potential into the kinetic.

A writer is an organism that will go on writing even after its heart has been cut out.