Carl SandburgThinkers

America is a country whose greatest necessity is to discover creative solitude.

Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed.

Arithmetic is where the answer is right and everything is nice and you can look out of the window and see the blue sky or the answer is wrong and you have to start over and try again and see how it comes out this time.

The Baby is God's opinion that life should go on.

The Book is never a masterpiece: It becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man.

Happiness's secret is to admire without desiring.

Human action is in all cases equivalent, and all are on principle doomed to failure.

The Moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.

The Past is a bucket of ashes.