Surely heaven must have something of the color and shape of whatever village or hill or cottage of which the believer says, This is my own.

It's all now you see: tomorrow began yesterday and yesterday won't be over until tomorrow.

Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.

We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.

I decline to accept the end of man.

Sometimes I aint so sho who's got ere a right to say when a man is crazy and when he aint. Sometimes I think it aint none of us pure crazy and aint none of us pure sane until the balance of us talks him that-a-way. It's like it aint so much what a fellow does, but it's the way the majority of folks is looking at him when he does it.

I learned little save that most of the deeds, good and bad both, incurring opprobrium or plaudits or reward either, within the scope of man's abilities, had already been performed and were to be learned about only from books.