“Many go out for wool, and come home shorn themselves.”

“The instructor said, Go home and write
a page tonight.
And let that page come out of you —
Then, it will be true.”

“The weak fear happiness itself. They can harm themselves on cotton wool. Sometimes they are wounded even by happiness.”

“Pride is a powerful force. The pride that kept so many men in California. They want to go home. But I can't go until I've got something to prove my success. They've been reading about success back home. I know, says the miner, how many people are failing. Failure is the most common fact of life in California. They don't know that. How can I go home a failure, when they expect me to come home a success? So they stay.”

“So many people come to church with a genuine desire to hear what we have to say, yet they are always going back home with the uncomfortable feeling that we are making it too difficult for them to come to Jesus.”

“Let Christians act out their religion, and there is no more race problem. Equality for the colored man is coming. The colored people are showing themselves worthy of it. Let the colored be industrious, purchase homes, respect law and order, educate themselves and their children, and keep insisting on their rights.”

“Come in peace to my home, Tan-Tan. And when you go, go in friendship.”

“While I see many hoof marks going in, I see none coming out. It is easier to get into the enemy's toils than out again.”

“Have any sheep been seen walking out of the Library with seagoing adventurers clinging to their wool?”

“There’s a moment before I walk out on stage, where it’s like electricity. And then you just go out there and it’s home. The stage is home to me.”