We inhereit from our ancestors gifts so often taken for granted... Each of us contains within... this inheritance of soul. We are links between the ages, containing past and present expectations, sacred memories and future promise.
The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.
The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.
People fail forward to success.
The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.