Walter C. Hagen

Stars are good too. I wish I could get some to put in my hair. But I suppose I never can. You would be surprised to find how far off they are, for they do not look it. When they first showed last night I tried to knock some down with a pole, but it didn’t reach, which astonished me. Then I tried clods till I was all tired out, but I never got one. I did make some close shots, for I saw the black blot of the clod sail right into thee midst of the golden clusters forty or fifty times, just barely missing them, and if I could’ve held out a little longer, maybe I could’ve got one.

People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they’ll have good voice boxes in case there’s ever anything really meaningful to say.

The menu is not the meal.

Pardon me if I haunt you tonight.

What a piece of work is man! how noble in reason! how infinite in faculty! in form and moving how express and admirable! in action how like an angel! In apprehension how like a god! the beauty of the world, the paragon of animals!

Be grateful for luck. Pay the thunder no mind.

A person that started in to carry a cat home by the tail was getting knowledge that was always going to be useful to him, and warn’t ever going to grow dim or doubtful.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

The only normal people are the ones you don’t know very well.

Character is what you have left when you’ve lost everything you can lose.

Somebody once said we never know what is enough until we know what’s more than enough.

I’m beginning to understand myself. But it would have been great to be able to understand myself when I was 20 rather than when I was 82.

From the day I arrived, California seemed like an enchanted land.

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

Not everything I write will be a masterpiece; I know that. It is a process selecting words to convey feelings never meant to be spoken. So maybe I’ve been searching for what’s already been said and this is the finest way I can say it. I love you, in everything I am, I love you.