I suspect anyway that the important things we learn we never remember because they become a part of us, we absorb them...we don't absorb multiplication tables.

With us, when you speak of ‘the river,’ though there be many, you mean always the same one, the great river, the shifting, unappeasable god of the country, feared and loved the Mississippi.

And would it not be proud romance Falling in some obscure advance, To rise, a poppy field of France?

It is a very nice world-that is, if you remember that while morals are all-important between the Lord and His creatures, what counts between one creature and another is good manners.

I have a need of silence and of stars. Too much is said too loudly. I am dazed. The silken sound of whirled infinity Is lost in voices shouting to be heard.

They ask little, for they know it is little they will receive for all their asking, but what little is so dear, as it always is to the autumn-hearted who know life is pitiful and infinitely sweet.

To the mind that could dream and shape our beaconed universe, what is injustice to us may be unfathomable tenderness, and our horror only loveliness misunderstood.

Strategize yearly, plan quarterly, examine monthly, reflect weekly, act daily, and live #intentionally.

Animals are good human beings and human beings are bad animals

To put yourself in another's place requires real imagination, but by doing so each Girl Scout will be able to love among others happily.

Eruptions of talent continue to happen in Haiti, in spite of everything.

When I'm writing columns, it's - all I'm thinking about is jokes, joke, joke, joke, setup, punch line, joke, joke, joke. And I really don't care where it goes.

Your true evolution is not what you do out there. That's secondary. Your true evolution is to do with the arising of awareness in you as you go about your life.

Why can we remember the tiniest detail that has happened to us, and not remember how many times we have told it to the same person.

Tact does for life just what lubricating oil does for machinery.

We are a very big mining country and historically have been exporters of raw minerals. There is no particular reason why we should not be processing those further.

The form of a poem is invisible. A poem is not an "object." This is hard to accept in a mechanical age.