"There is quite enough sorrow and shame..." - Quote by Theodore Roosevelt

“Nowhere, not at sea, does a man feel more lonely than when riding over the far-reaching, seemingly never-ending plains.”

“I think we are warranted in contending that a society thus constituted, and which may be rendered so admirable an engine of improvement, far from meriting reproach, deserves highly of the community.”

“If a man does not have an ideal and try to live up to it, then he becomes a mean, base and sordid creature, no matter how successful.”

“Reality is a sliding door.”

“The point is that for our ancestors, the universe was a picture; for modern physics it is a story.”

“The dreams of golden glory in the future will not come true unless, high of heart and strong of hand, by our own mighty deeds we make them come true.”

“The firmest house in my fiction, probably, is the little thick-walled sandstone farmhouse of 'The Centaur' and 'Of the Farm'; I had lived in that house, and can visualize every floorboard and bit of worn molding.”

“Reality and Fiction are different in that fiction has to make sense.”

“Fiction was invented the day Jonas arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale.”