“It’s almost impossible to read a fine thing without wanting to do a fine thing.”

A man on a horse is spiritually, as well as physically, bigger then a man on foot.

An unbelieved truth can hurt a man much more than a lie. It takes great courage to back truth unacceptable to our times. There’s a punishment for it, and it’s usually crucifixion.

Man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it.

Somewhere in the world there is a defeat for everyone. Some are destroyed by defeat, and some made small and mean by victory. Greatness lives in one who triumphs equally over defeat and victory.

No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.

Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased.

It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him.

Nearly everyone has his box of secret pain.

I find out of long experience that I admire all nations and hate all governments

Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do, Try to be better than yourself.

A man without words is a man without thought.

The craft or art of writing is the clumsy attempt to find symbols for the wordlessness.

If you understand each other you will be kind to each other.

It’s a hard thing to leave any deeply routine life, even if you hate it.

The free exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world.

I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found.

It is most impossible that we should beseech mercy and grace, and not have it.

It is impossible to love deeply without sacrifice.

There are three stages in the work of God: impossible, difficult,done.

As President Nixon says, presidents can do almost anything, and President Nixon has done many things that nobody would have thought of doing.

No one ever gets far unless he accomplishes the impossible at least once a day.

Defeating Resistance is like giving birth. It seems absolutely impossible until you remember that women have been pulling it off successfully, with support and without, for fifty million years.

A spiritually established life is not an easy task. But a materially satisfied life is an impossible task.

It is impossible to make anything beautiful or desirable in the best regulated administration of slavery.