Beauty is everlasting And dust is for a time.

As for butterflies, I can hardly conceive of one's attending upon you; but to question the congruence of the complement is vain, if it exists.

Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads.

Your thorns are the best part of you.

Any writer overwhelmingly honest about pleasing himself is almost sure to please others.

Originality is... a by-product of sincerity.

Camels are snobbish and sheep, unintelligent; water buffaloes, neurasthenic-- even murderous. Reindeer seem over-serious.

Omissions are not accidents.

The hands are the heart's messengers.

The passion for setting people right is in itself an afflictive disease.

When one cannot appraise out of one's own experience, the temptation to blunder is minimized, but even when one can, appraisal seems chiefly useful as appraisal of the appraiser.

Man is a messenger who forgot the message.

I had to depend on Braille for my reading and guide for my walking...I am now wearing no glasses, reading and all without strain...by taking lessons in seeing...optometrists hate the method.

We're not a homogeneous party, anymore than the Republicans are. But we are a party that I think has a plan to take us forward.

You can take Saban's record when he was at Michigan State and when he was a coach in the Big Ten and put it against mine, and he can't compare.

Art gives me an outlet where I can be aggressive in a world where I usually can't be.

I've probably understood men too well. I realise they are predatory by nature, and I have a certain acceptance of the male animal.

You love me this much.

He would, wouldn't he?

People don't know this, but early in your career, you don't just glide on to The Tonight Show.

The bitter clamor of two eager tongues.