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

Youth hasn't got anything to do with chronological age. It's times of hope and happiness.

Home is a notion that only nations of the homeless fully appreciate and only the uprooted comprehend.

Every action is an idea before it is an action, and perhaps a feeling before it is an idea, and every idea rests upon other ideas that have preceded it in time.

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

Death is a convention, a certification to the end of pain, something for the vital statistics book, not binding upon anyone but the keepers of graveyard records.

No place is a place until things that have happened in it are remembered in history, ballads, yarns, legends, or monuments. Fictions serve as well as facts.