"Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience."

"A profession is the backbone of life."

"For others do I wait... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come."

"Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine."

"They punish you for all your virtues. They forgive you entirely--your mistakes."

"Memory says, I did that. Pride replies, I could not have done that. Eventually memory yields."

"The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good."

"Folly is often more cruel in the consequences than malice can be in the intent."

"If it weren't for baseball, many kids wouldn't know what a millionaire looked like."

"Nixon is a shifty-eyed goddamn liar....He's one of the few in the history of this country to run for high office talking out of both sides of his mouth at the same time and lying out of both sides."

"Sooner of later that which is now life shall be poetry, and every fair and manly trait shall add a richer strain to the song."

"Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light."