Swinging on delicate hinges the autumn leaf almost off the stem.

Maybe that's what life is... a wink of the eye and winking stars.

Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you're already in heaven now.

Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.

Put down the pen someone else gave you. No one ever drafted a life worth living on borrowed ink.

I saw that my life was a vast glowing empty page and I could do anything I wanted.

He had no place he could stay in without getting tired of it and because there was nowhere to go but everywhere, keep rolling under the stars.

Everything is ecstasy inside. We just don't know it because of our thinking-minds. But in our true blissful essence of mind [it] is known that everything is alright forever and forever and forever.

It is not my fault that certain so-called bohemian elements have found in my writings something to hang their peculiar beatnik theories on.

Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don't be sorry.

You can't teach the old maestro a new tune.

Trifles make up the happiness or the misery of mortal life.

A Failure in this Duty did once involve our Nation in all the Horrors of Rebellion and Civil War.

The antithesis between a technical and a liberal education is fallacious. There can be no adequate technical education which is not liberal, and no liberal education which is not technical.

Human truth is always soiled with falsehood.

I do not suffer from Autism, but I do suffer from the way you treat me.

As Aristotle said, you have to be an aristocrat or a reactionary to write a good proletarian poem.

We have guided missiles and misguided men.

The problem isn't the abuse of power; it's the power to abuse.

You don't just turn on a camera and do a cooking show. If you want to go somewhere with something, you've got to make it look like what it's supposed to look like five years from now.

There hasn't been a military force like the United States of America in the history of the world.