The hands are the heart's messengers.

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 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.

Conscious writing can be the death of poetry.

How alone everyone is in the vast tomb of the universe!

I am only a spark: Make me a fire.

I hate losing more than I like winning

Sometimes to keep it together you've got to leave it alone.

We are the second oldest state in the Union because too many of our young people are leaving Pennsylvania. They are leaving Pennsylvania behind for opportunities elsewhere.

I don't like hearing that I've lost weight. I like hearing that it looks like I have gained weight?!

If everyone would paint, political re-education would be unnecessary.

No one in government should ever think that the citizens they work for can't or won't scrutinize their actions

I was so thrilled being a reporter, because it gave you the kind of access to people that you wouldn't ever get to meet.

Creativity means believing you have greatness.