Most philosophers must have been raised on chicken farms. One hopes for so much from a chicken and is so dreadfully disillusioned. - Sherwood Anderson

You can't always be too fussy about what you say to a young boy. Really, sometimes, you should take him into your confidence, into your life, make him a part of your life.

Dare to be strong and courageous. That is the road. Venture anything. Be brave enough to dare to be loved.

We have not approached the time when we may speak to each other, but in the mornings sometimes I have heard, echoing far off, the sound of a trumpet. It is apparent that nations cannot exist for us. They are the playthings of children, such toys as children break from boredom and weariness. The branch of a tree is my country. My freedom sleeps in a mulberry bush. My country is in the shivering legs of a little lost dog.