He had the uneasy manner of a man who is not among his own kind, and who has not seen enough of the world to feel that all people are in some sense his own kind. – Willa Cather
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young. – Willa Cather
Sometimes a neighbor whom we have disliked a lifetime for his arrogance and conceit lets fall a single commonplace remark that shows us another side, another man, really; a man uncertain, and puzzled, and in the dark like ourselves. – Willa Cather
The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is. – Willa Cather
And this President wakes up every morning, looks out across America and is proud to announce, It could be worse. It could be worse? Is that what it means to be an American? It could be worse? Of course not. What defines us as Americans is our unwavering conviction that we know it must be better. – Mitt Romney