To have so little, and it of so little value, was to be quaintly free.

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.

We are the only species which, when it chooses to do so, will go to great effort to save what it might destroy.

You can't retire to weakness -- you've got to learn to control strength.

Talent can't be taught, but it can be awakened.

I wonder if ever again Americans can have that experience of returning to a home place so intimately known, profoundly felt, deeply loved, and absolutely submitted to? It is not quite true that you can't go home again. I have done it, coming back here. But it gets less likely. We have had too many divorces, we have consumed too much transportation, we have lived too shallowly in too many places.

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