You must always know the past, for there is no real Was, there is only Is.

There is no such thing as was - only is. If was existed, there would be no grief or sorrow.

Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.

The past isn't over. It isn't even past.

I have found that the greatest help in meeting any problem with decency and self-respect and whatever courage is demanded, is to know where you yourself stand. That is, to have in words what you believe and are acting from.

It's the most satisfying occupation man has discovered yet, because you never can quite do it as well as you want to, so there's always something to wake up tomorrow morning to do.

And I will look down and see my murmuring bones and the deep water like wind, like a roof of wind, and after a long time they cannot distinguish even bones upon the lonely and inviolate sand.