There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism.
What place is so rugged and so homely that there is no beauty; if you only have a sensibility to beauty?
Blessed be the man whose work drives him. Something must drive men; and if it is wholesome industry, they have no time for a thousand torments and temptations.
Sorrows, as storms, bring down the clouds close to the earth; sorrows bring heaven down close; and they are instruments of cleansing and purifying.
God asks no man whether he will accept life. That is not the choice. You must take it. The only choice is how.
The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world's joy.
Were one to ask me in which direction I think man strongest, I should say, his capacity to hate.
Fiction that responds to recent world events is a hostage to fortune because all momentous events look very different a year, two years, three years later.
The men and women of Afghanistan are building a nation that is free, and proud, and fighting terror - and America is honored to be their friend.
He who fears fate lives like a coward
It seems I make a lot of mistakes and it seems that I am not allowed any.