The most pleasant and useful persons are those who leave some of the problems of the universe for God to worry about.

Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.

By the time a bartender knows what drink a man will have before he orders, there is little else about him worth knowing.

Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.

Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.

Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates.

When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?'

Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.

A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists.

The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.

A fierce unrest seethes at the core, of all existing things:, it was the eager wish to soar, that gave the gods their wings.

I dream of books!

The first kiss plummeted him down a hole and popped him out into a world he thought he could get along in—as if he’d been pulling hard the wrong way and was now turned around headed downstream.

Beauty and the devil are the same thing.

We should learn to accept that change is truly the only thing that's going on always, and learn to ride with it and enjoy it.

I'm not superstitious.

My generation of the Sixties, with all our great ideals, destroyed liberalism, because of our excesses.

A multitude of people and yet solitude.

America's been very, very good to me. I've been very lucky and worked a lot there, and appreciate and love the work that I've done.

Whatever your life's pursuit -- art, poetry, sculpture, music, whatever your occupation may be -- you can be as spiritual as clergy, always living a life of praise.

You're not going to do good work if you're not choosing something because it inspires you.