Nearly every night before I go to bed I ask myself, "Have I vibrated in tune with the Infinite today, or have I failed?

Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.

By the time a bartender knows what drink a man will have before he orders, there is little else about him worth knowing.

Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.

Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.

Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates.

When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?'

Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.

A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists.

The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.

A fierce unrest seethes at the core, of all existing things:, it was the eager wish to soar, that gave the gods their wings.

To die famous is the goal of the immortal. To die young is the goal of the healthy. To die memorably is the goal of the survivor.

Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones just as the wind blows out a candle and fans a fire.

The citizens of America expect more. They deserve and they want more than a recital of problems.

I have pitfalls. I have emotional responses to things that are really not about me. They're about other people.

All things do go a-courting, In earth, or sea, or air, God hath made nothing single But thee in His world so fair.

Free-will cannot will good and of necessity serves sin.

I think if I got a bicycle from my father, I should give a car to my son.

Being honest...[to reporters] Not the worst thing in the world. Don't write that down.

Whatever glory belongs to the race for a development unprecedented in history for the given length of time, a full share belongs to the womanhood of the race.

It all depends on whether you have things, or they have you.