Carl Sandburg

"Success is getting what you want, and happiness is wanting what you get."

"Two of the most important things to have in the world are love and courage."

"I'm always leaving one chapter to tell in another book."

"I see America spread across the continent to the Pacific, a nation of nations."

"Desolation is a kind of company."

"The work that is truly productive is the work of overcoming our early stupidities."

"Not often in the story of mankind does a man arrive on earth who is both steel and velvet."

"I am very much a family man."

"The past is a bucket of ashes."

"Laws are like sausages; it is better not to see them being made."

"I have always depended on the kindness of strangers."

"Modern science is a great thing—you can use it to invent a better engine or a better bomb."

"In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you awake in the morning."

"I've always wanted to be somebody, but I see now I should have been more specific."

"The old men had money, the new men have made a world."

"Beauty is a lonely thing."

"I am a poet of the people."

"Patience is a flute the wind plays through."

"I have known some few men who were great."

"She speaks good Hindi and is learning Greek and English and French."

"A man may be down, but he is never out."

"Music is the heartbeat of what makes us human."

"Before Abraham Lincoln was martyr, he was a man."

"The greatest thing one generation can do for the next is to create beauty."

"Youth is the hope of our people."

"An artist must believe he is infallible. Yet in the end he must admit he failed."

"A family is a place where minds come in contact with one another."

"Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life."

"Money is power; and you ought to be reasonably ambitious to have it."

"The question is: Is man at last beginning to learn to live together, or will he destroy himself?"