Big whorls have little whorls Which feed on their velocity And little whorls have lesser whorls, And so on to viscosity.

Sticks and stones can break your bones, but names can kill you.

I don't fear death, I fear I haven't done enough before it happens

All punishments by which the human body might be maimed are barbarbarism.

Middle age is the way you would feel about summer if you knew there would never be another spring.

Another important rule of affair-having: Never be discreet at the office.

A dream is the mind's way of answering a question it hasn't yet figured out how to ask.

When the decision is up before you-and on my desk I have a motto which says "The buck stops here"-the decision has to be made.

There's a responsibility in being a person. It's more than just taking up space where air would be.

Nothing can stop you until you choose to be stopped

If writers just sit and talk about oppression, they are not going to do much writing.