Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage.
How I longed to see these things; how I longed to see the Liberty Bell and walk on the streets where Thomas Jefferson, Tom Paine and Benjamin Franklin had walked.
The cool wind blew in my face and all at once I felt as if I had shed dullness from myself. Before me lay a long gray line with a black mark down the center. The birds were singing. It was spring.
When you've set goals and dreams, you don't feel old.
The human animal is a beast that eventually has to die. If he's got money, he buys and he buys and he buys. The reason he buys everything he can is because of some crazy hope that one of the things he buys will be life everlasting.
I think my life has been a long, slow process of trying to move closer and closer to the spirit by moving closer and closer to the heart. The heart is what's important.
To be a man requires that you accept everything life has to give you, beginning with your name.
We need a legal code that develops like our skin during our growing years. Something both youthful and strong. . . So what we humans birth might surpass without oppressing us.
Always remember that if editors were so damned smart, they would know how to dress.
Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each slice.
The most beautiful of altars, he said, is the soul of an unhappy creature consoled and thankfing God.