A voice said, Look me in the stars And tell me truly, men of earth, If all the soul-and-body scars Were not too much to pay for birth.

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.

By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.

The best way out is always through.

Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.

But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep.

Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.

Live life like its the last breath you take for that breath is the whole essence of living, the little things in life are what connects us to all the big things we live for

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.

Before I built a wall I'd ask to know what I was walling in or walling out.

Action and personal happiness have no truck with each other

God send a one person for you, never miss the chance, who make you queen and do-did everything for your smile without any selfiness....

The whole of life is symbolic because the whole of it has meaning.

A writer who waits for ideal conditions under which to work will die without putting a word to paper.

I long for home, long for the sight of home.

My father was a railroad man his entire life; 43 years for Southern Railroad.

Starting with [Ronald] Regan it became quite open, the attack on unions. It wasn't the Pinkertons anymore, but it was just not applying the laws.

I practiced on the greatest model of storytelling we've got, which is "The Iliad" and "The Odyssey." I told those stories many, many times.

If you repeat a lie often enough, people will believe it. It really is public brainwashing and misinformation.

It's nervous work. The state you need to write in is the state that others are paying large sums of money to get rid of.