That which is possible is inevitable.

What can any of us do with his talent but try to develop his vision, so that through frequent failures we may learn better what we have missed in the past.

No ideas but in things.

No wreaths please - especially no hothouse flowers. Some common memento is better, something he prized and is known by: his old clothes - a few books perhaps.

It is almost impossible to state what one in fact believes, because it is almost impossible to hold a belief and to define it at the same time.

Empty pockets make empty heads.

The pure products of America go crazy--mountain folk from Kentucky or the ribbed north end of Jersey with its isolate lakes and valleys, its deaf-mutes, thieves.