In that moment, when watches and clocks misbehave and you feel a cold vapor wrap itself around your heart, you unconsciously draw a line at the botto….

Hackberry Holland's greatest fear was his fellow man's propensity to act collectively, in militaristic lockstep, under the banner of God and country.….

If we break promises to God, shouldn't we be allowed an occasional violation of our word to our friends and superiors?.

You do it a day at a time. You write as well as you can, you put it in the mail, you leave it under submission, you never leave it at home..

We gain no wisdom by imposing our way on others..

I sometimes subscribe to the belief that all historical events occur simultaneously, like a dream in the mind of God. Perhaps it is only man who view….

What's the worst thing about getting old? Getting old..

There's no substitute for loyalty..

A lie is an act of theft. It steals peoples faith and makes them resent themselves.

I feel blessed in the knowledge that I probably belong to the last generation that will remember what we call "traditional America.".

When people make a contract with the devil and give him an air-conditioned office to work in, he doesn't go back home easily..

Is there a design in the events of our lives? Or do things just happen, much like a junk yard falling down a staircase? If it's the latter, how do yo….

But the participants [in war] never forgot the details of their experience, and like the Wandering Jew, they were condemned to remain their own histo….

...and I wonder if there is any way to adequately describe the folly that causes us to undo all the great gifts of both Earth and Heaven..

Louisiana is a fresh-air mental asylum..

Age is a peculiar kind of thief. It slips up on you and steps inside your skin and is so quiet and methodical in its work that you never realize it h….

The real gladiators of the world are so humble in their origins and unremarkable in appearance that when we stand next to them in a grocery-store lin….

I believe every...man remembers the girl he thinks he should have married. She reappears to him in his lonely moments, or he sees her in the face of ….

Don't ever quit. Never quit. Never show anybody you're hurt. Grin and walk through the cannon smoke. It will drive them up the wall. You always stay ….

How do you explain to yourself the casual manner in which you threw your life away?.

Don't let anyone tell you that age purchases your freedom from fear of death..