Good manners, Madam, are had these days not For your asking, nor mine, nor what-we-used-to-be's. The day is a loud grenade that bursts a smile Of serious weeds in a comic lily plot.

Men expect too much, do too little.

The dusk runs down the lane driven like hail; Far off a precise whistle is escheat To the dark; and then the towering weak and pale.

Poets are mysterious, but a poet when all is said is not much more mysterious than a banker.

Other psychological theories say a good deal about compensation.

The day's at end and there's nowhere to go, Draw to the fire, even this fire is dying; Get up and once again politely lying Invite the ladies toward the mistletoe.

The mission for the day is to encourage students to think beyond traditional career opportunities, prepare for future careers and entrance into the workplace.

I have felt darkness lead me by the hand Over the hill to greet the singing dawn.

In the cold morning the rested street stands up To greet the clerk who saunters down the world.

So face with calm that heritage And earn contempt before the age.

Experience means conflict, our natures being what they are, and conflict means drama.

You exist to know thy Creator.

I just feel so sexy when I'm salsa dancing and wearing the salsa clothes. I love dancing.

Our country must be strong enough to solve problems, and that means we must learn how to work together again.

We must never give a free hand to those who want to subjugate us, draw this line so that New York will never become New Mecca.

The secret of poetry is cruelty.

Never give up. Don't let good ideas be buried with you. Breathe it. Dream it. Live it and relentlessly pursue your ideas and ideals. Without them you cannot achieve anything meaningful in life.

The attacks on old words and the coining of new are the visible tip of the iceberg of change.

You need more than a beginning if you're going to start a book. If all you have is a beginning, then once you've written that beginning, you have nowhere to go.

Love wasn't a piece of music you could play over and over again with different interpretations. It actually needed to be improvised as you went along.

God is absolutely good; and so, assuredly, the cause of all that is good.