"Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need... but not every man's greed."

"Courage is the fear of being thought a coward."

"Hit the ball over the fence and you can take your time going around the bases."

"Pride defeats its own end, by bringing the man who seeks esteem and reverence into contempt."

"I am in fact a Hobbit, in all but size."

"The only real failure in life is one not learned from."

"What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure."

"To display the greatest powers, unless they are applied to great purposes, makes nothing for the character of greatness."

"Thank God I have done my duty."

"God is love, but get it in writing."

"I was born on the prairies where the wind blew free and there was nothing to break the light of the sun. I was born where there were no enclosures..."

"It's pretty clear now that what looked like it might have been some kind of counterculture is, in reality, just the plain old chaos of undifferentiated weirdness."