Slight was the thing I bought, small was the debt I thought, Poor was the loan at best - God! but the interest!

..we wear the mask that grins and lies, it hides our cheeks and shades our eyes- this debt we pay to human guile; with torn and bleeding hearts we smile.

Hope is tenacious. It goes on living and working when science has dealt it what should be its deathblow.

With our short sight we affect to take a comprehensive view of eternity. Our horizon is the universe.

I hope there is something worthy in my writings and not merely the novelty of a black face associated with the power to rhyme that has attracted attention.

A minute to smile and an hour to weep in, A pint of joy to a peck of trouble, And never a laugh but the moans come double; And that is life!

Only the rich are lonesome.

Poor conceited humanity! Interpreters of God indeed.

All play and no work makes Jack a mere toy.

I know what the caged bird feels, alas!

We reduce the deity to vulgar fractions. We place our own little ambitions and label them ?divine messages?. With our short sight we affect to take a comprehensive view of eternity.

Be of love a little more careful than of anything.

Cities are the greatest creations of humanity.

The ultimate aim of education is to enable individuals to become the architects of their own education and through that process to continually reinvent themselves.

Men... performed better when they understood why they were being asked to carry out a task.

The late 20th century sea level rise rate lacks any sign of acceleration. Satellite altimetry indicates virtually no changes in the last decade.

True counselors of despair are those who hope against hope—and historical experience—that the government can and will act constructively.

A vice is merely a pleasure to which somebody has objected.

There is nothing after death, and death itself is nothing.

Unique and different is the next generation of beautiful.