Wolf's wool is the best of wool, / but it cannot be sheared because / the wolf will not comply.

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.

It is only when we can look inside and learn to love deeply that which resembles uncut gravel within ourselves that we will be blessed to find it filled with diamonds

What sunshine is to flowers smiles are to humanity. They are but trifles to be sure but scattered along life's pathway the good they do is inconceivable.

Technology has advanced more in the last thirty years than in the previous two thousand. The exponential increase in advancement will only continue.

I've had a couple of long relationships. And I've had a couple of shorter relationships.

When maintaining a relationship means diminishing your self, it's time to walk.

Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.

The people made the Constitution, and the people can unmake it. It is the creature of their own will, and lives only by their will.

The key to HIV/AIDS was to say let's give a patient multiple different therapies at the same time and that makes the virus much less likely to mutate.

College football today is one of the last great strongholds of genuine old-fashioned American hypocrisy.

When everyone is catching great waves and out in the line up telling stories and having a laugh, you have the best times. I also get really psyched surfing or running in the rain.