Scratch any father, you find / Someone chock-full of qualms and romantic terrors, / Believing change is a threat.

A hobby a day keeps the doldrums away.

Sometimes I have a notion that what might improve the situation is to have women take over the occupations of government and trade and to give men their freedom.

Of one thing I am certain, the body is not the measure of healing, peace is the measure.

Those wearing Tolerance for a label call other views intolerable.

A mother's hardest to forgive. Life is the fruit she longs to hand you Ripe on a plate. And while you live, Relentlessly she understands you.

Seventy is wormwood, Seventy is gall But its better to be seventy, Than not alive at all.

Words can sting like anything, but silence breaks the heart.

Borrow my umbrellas, my clothes, my money, and I will likely not think of them again. But borrow my books and I will be on your track like a bloodhound until they are returned.

In Australia, not reading poetry is the national pastime.

Stir the eggnog, lift the toddy, Happy New Year everybody.

Perspective, patience, & trust. One derived from the past, one applied now, and one for the future. Powerful allies for your journey in life.

Become the kind of leader that people would follow voluntarily

I charge thee, fling away ambition. By that sin fell the angels.

Taking drugs is stupid. Why mess up your brain like that?

A reformer should be exempt from the suspicion of interest, and he must possess the confidence and esteem of those whom he proposes to reclaim.

A visual sense is something you either have or you don't.

All of us who served in one war or another know very well that all wars are the glory and the agony of the young.

It requires a long time to know anyone.

Death then, being the way and condition of life, we cannot love to live if we cannot bear to die.