An American is insubmissive, lonely, self-educated, and polite. - Thornton Wilder

You’ve got to love life to have life, and you’ve got to have life to love life.

Spiders draw just enough silk out of their bowels to catch those half-dozen flies they need to feed themselves and their loved ones; but the rich make silk and silk and silk. Nothing can stop them. Their houses are stuffed with it. Their banks are stuffed with it, and it’s not out of their bowels they make it, but out of the bowels and lungs and eyeballs of others.

Ninety-nine per cent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion.