For through it all--above, beyond it all-- I know the far-sent message of the years, I feel the coming glory of the Light.

Are we no greater than the noise we make Along one blind atomic pilgrimage Whereon by crass chance billeted we go Because our brains and bones and cartilage Will have it so?

Life is the game that must be played.

Two kinds of gratitude: The sudden kind we feel for what we take; the larger kind we feel for what we give.

The world is a kind of spiritual kindergarten where millions of bewildered infants are trying to spell "God" with the wrong blocks.

No matter what we are, and what we sing, Time finds a withered leaf in every laurel

I shall have more to say when I am dead.

For when a woman is left too much alone, sooner or later she begins to think; and no man knows what then she may discover.

And thus we all are nighing The truth we fear to know: Death will end our crying For friends that come and go.

Love must have wings to fly away from love, And to fly back again.

Shake the tree of life itself and bring down fruits unheard of.

The test of our knowledge is not what we know, but what we can do.

If my face was covered, I would be useless.

I'm sorry.' The two most inadequate words in the English language.

In business, I've discovered that my purpose is to do my best to my utmost ability every day. That's my standard. I learned early in my life that I had high standards.

As long as you represent me as praising alcohol I shall not complain.

Oh, and I’m also happy to watch our darling little love child dragon while you’re in St. Louis.

We fight a lot, you know, but that's family. We may be dysfunctional, but we're still family.

And will I tell you that these three lived happily ever after? I will not, for no one ever does. But there was happiness. And they did live.

History after all is the true poetry.

A fool and his money are soon invited everywhere.