To fulfil the dreams of one's youth; that is the best that can happen to a man. No worldly success can take the place of that..

There is often a good deal of the child left in people who have had to grow up too soon..

Elsewhere the sky is the roof of the world; but here the earth was the floor of the sky..

The end is nothing; the road is all..

Many people seem to think that art is a luxury to be imported and tacked on to life. Art springs out of the very stuff that life is made of. Most of ….

When the eyes of the flesh are shut, the eyes of the spirit are open..

Miracles surround us at every turn if we but sharpen our perceptions of them..

We come and go, but the land is always here. And the people who love it and understand it are the people who own it - for a little while..

The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young..

The only thing very noticeable about Nebraska was that it was still, all day long, Nebraska..

There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm..

People live through such pain only once. Pain comes again—but it finds a tougher surface..

When kindness has left people, even for a few moments, we become afraid of them as if their reason had left them. When it has left a place where we h….

People always think the bread of another country is better than their own..

Where there is great love there are always miracles..

Freedom so often means that one isn't needed anywhere..

It takes a great deal of experience to become natural..

Success is never so interesting as struggle.

It does not matter much whom we live with in this world, but it matters a great deal whom we dream of..

That is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great..

All Southern women wished of their menfolk was simply to be 'like Paris handsome and like Hector brave'..