Two kinds of gratitude: The sudden kind we feel for what we take; the larger kind we feel for what we give.

Are we no greater than the noise we make Along one blind atomic pilgrimage Whereon by crass chance billeted we go Because our brains and bones and cartilage Will have it so?

Life is the game that must be played.

The world is a kind of spiritual kindergarten where millions of bewildered infants are trying to spell "God" with the wrong blocks.

No matter what we are, and what we sing, Time finds a withered leaf in every laurel

I shall have more to say when I am dead.

For when a woman is left too much alone, sooner or later she begins to think; and no man knows what then she may discover.

And thus we all are nighing The truth we fear to know: Death will end our crying For friends that come and go.

Love must have wings to fly away from love, And to fly back again.

Shake the tree of life itself and bring down fruits unheard of.

I cannot find my way: there is no star In all the shrouded heavens anywhere

The mind of man is capable of anything - because everything is in it, all the past as well as the future.

I want to sleep in the ovenbecause I just burn in the bed.

A strong desire derives a person straight through the hardest rock.

Where are the dogs going? you people who pay so little attention ask. They are going about their business. And they are very punctilious, without wallets, notes, and without briefcases.

They see me as an ordinary guy, like a construction worker or the guy who delivers your piano.

In a state of nature, the weakest go to the wall; in a state of over-refinement, both the weak and the strong go to the gutter.

Globalization creates economic policies where the transnationals lord over us, and the result is misery and unemployment.

Robert Whitmore died of apoplexy when a stranger from Georgia mistook him for a former Macon waiter.

Do you believe in fairies? Say quick that you believe. If you believe, clap your hands!

Anecdotes are sometimes the best vehicles of truth, and if striking and appropriate are often more impressive and powerful than argument.