The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence.

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.

Loneliness is not the enemy of your joy as long as you know how you should always destroy the pensive mood that remains with you like a friend who never stands up for you when you’re forced to bend

All of a sudden, You seemed to beStranger than a fiction, to me.

It's amazing: I am a New Yorker. It's strange I never thought I would be.

One may preach a covenant of grace more clearly than another... But when they preach a covenant of works for salvation, that is not truth.

He that would travel much, should eat little.

If things don't come easy, there is no premium on effort. There should be joy in the chase, zest in the pursuit.

I saw a sign that said, 'Watch for children.' I was like, 'That sounds like a fair trade - especially if they're crappy kids.'

Los Angeles: Seventy-two suburbs in search of a city.

To be successful in bodybuilding you have to be a good observer

. . . the time has also come to identify and preserve free-flowing stretches of our great rivers before growth and development make the beauty of the unspoiled waterway a memory.