To the young man a kind of worship of some power outside himself is essential. one has strength and enthusiasm and wants gods to worship. - Sherwood Anderson

I was born fussy, liked cleanness and orderliness about me and had already been thrown too much into the midst of shiftlessness. The socialists and communists I had seen and heard talk nearly all struck me as men who had no sense of life at all.

We poor tellers of tales have our moments too, it seems. Like great generals sitting upon horses upon the tops of hills and throwing troops into the arena, we throw the little soldier words into our battles.

But people who believe in themselves make others believe.