The Irish say your trouble is their trouble and your joy their joy? I wish I could believe it; I am troubled, I'm dissatisfied, I'm Irish.

As for butterflies, I can hardly conceive of one's attending upon you; but to question the congruence of the complement is vain, if it exists.

Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads.

Your thorns are the best part of you.

Any writer overwhelmingly honest about pleasing himself is almost sure to please others.

Originality is... a by-product of sincerity.

Camels are snobbish and sheep, unintelligent; water buffaloes, neurasthenic-- even murderous. Reindeer seem over-serious.

Omissions are not accidents.

The hands are the heart's messengers.

The passion for setting people right is in itself an afflictive disease.

When one cannot appraise out of one's own experience, the temptation to blunder is minimized, but even when one can, appraisal seems chiefly useful as appraisal of the appraiser.

Dancing every night enhances a positive energy.

The heroic hours of life do not announce their presence by drum and trumpet.

The physical language of the body is so much more powerful than words.

And I'm asking for your support because I want to defend America, as I've said before, from becoming a socialist nation

I think that's a bit unfair. I'm a father with a 2-year-old child and I feel pretty young, actually.

Many filmmakers pretend that they never see anything, which has always seemed odd to me.

It (nursing) comes more from care than study.

If you are neutral in a situation where one side is patently being mistreated, the conclusion is that you're siding with this wrong.

I don't build championship teams, I build championship boys.

I have no problem not listening to the Temptations.