You remember some bedrooms you have slept in. There are bedrooms you like to remember and others you would like to forget.- Carl Sandburg
Where was I going? I puzzled and wondered about it til I actually enjoyed the puzzlement and wondering.
When I was writing pretty poor poetry, this girl with midnight black hair told me to go on.
When a nation goes down, or a society perishes, one condition may always be found; they forgot where they came from. They lost sight of what had brought them along.
We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.
We had two grand antique professors who had been teaching at Lombard since before I was born.
We do not have to think up a title till we get the doggone book written.
Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure whether they have it till the test comes. And those having it in one test never know for sure if they will have it when the next test comes.
To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then go to hell after all would be too damn hard.
To be a good loser is to learn how to win.
Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.
There was always the consolation that if I didn't like what I wrote I could throw it away or burn it.
There is an eagle in me that wants to soar, and there is a hippopotamus in me that wants to wallow in the mud.
There have been as many varieties of socialists as there are wild birds that fly in the woods and sometimes go up and on through the clouds.
There are 10 men in me and I do not know or understand one of them.
