Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure.

All of the sudden," he said, "I feel different-- not like I ever felt before. Even when Papa died I didn't feel this way. In two days everything is changed. I'm lonely and I don't now what I'm lonely for

Human memory works its own wheel, and stops where it will, entirely without reference to the last stop, and with no connection with the next.

Human greatness is a rather difficult thing to account for, and more often than not one is mistaken in one's hunches about somebody one has met.

I'm not the kind of guy to knock at a door and then when the door is opened not go in.

The child race is fresh, eager, interested, innocent, imaginative, healthy and full of faith, where the adult race, more often than not, is stale, spiritually debauched, unimaginative, unhealthy, and without faith.

No city invites the heart to come to life as San Francisco does. Arrival in San Francisco is an experience in living.