 In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage. |
| Four hoarse blasts of a ship's whistle still raise the hair on my neck and set my feet to tapping. |
| Sectional football games have the glory and the despair of war, and when a Texas team takes the field against a foreign state, it is an army with banners. |
| Syntax, my lad. It has been restored to the highest place in the republic. |
| Time is the only critic without ambition. |
| It is true that we are weak and sick and ugly and quarrelsome but if that is all we ever were, we would millenniums ago have disappeared from the face of the earth. |
| I have never smuggled anything in my life. Why, then, do I feel an uneasy sense of guilt on approaching a customs barrier? |
| A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it. |
| Man, unlike anything organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments. |
| Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power. |
| Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass. |
| I am impelled, not to squeak like a grateful and apologetic mouse, but to roar like a lion out of pride in my profession. |
| Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased. |
| The discipline of the written word punishes both stupidity and dishonesty. |
| It has always been my private conviction that any man who puts his intelligence up against a fish and loses had it coming. |
| It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world. |
| We spend our time searching for security and hate it when we get it. |
| One can find so many pains when the rain is falling. |
| I've lived in good climate, and it bores the hell out of me. I like weather rather than climate. |
| If you're in trouble, or hurt or need - go to the poor people. They're the only ones that'll help - the only ones. |
