Believing requires action.
My horse was in the lead, coming down the home stretch, but the caddie fell off.
The harder I work, the luckier I get.
Ninety percent of the art of living consists of getting along with people you cannot stand.
If Roosevelt were alive today, he'd turn over in his grave.
A Hospital is no place to be sick.
I don't want any yes-men around me. I want everybody to tell me the truth even if it costs them their job.
I write sets of books, but I've also written a lot of orphans.
Plato, the first true pope of philosophy (sorry, Socrates), argued for a World of Forms above the reality-a transcendent plane of perfect essences, pure and lovely, where nothing ever gets muddy (including the essence of mud. )
I do not shake hands from a sanitary standpoint.
Yes, my consuming desire is to mingle with road crews, sailors and soldiers, barroom regulars - to be a part of a scene, anonymous, listening, recording - all this is spoiled by the fact that I am a girl, a female always supposedly in danger of assault and battery. My consuming interest in men and their lives is often misconstrued as a desire to seduce them, or as an invitation to intimacy. Yes, God, I want to talk to everybody as deeply as I can. I want to be able to sleep in an open field, to travel west, to walk freely at night.