There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.
Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I'll forgive Thy great big joke on me.
If you don't know how great this country is, I know someone who does Russia.
I go to school the youth to learn the future.
Poetry is what gets lost in translation.
The world is full of willing people some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.
The brain is a wonderful organ it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.
Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's.
Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.
The only certain freedom's in departure.
Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.
The best things and best people rise out of their separateness I'm against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.
I always entertain great hopes.
To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.
A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
The best way out is always through.
Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market.
A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.
Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.
I'd just as soon play tennis with the net down.
Education is hanging around until you've caught on.
The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.
The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything.
The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended-and not to take a hint when a hint isn't intended.
Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.
A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.
It's a funny thing that when a man hasn't anything on earth to worry about, he goes off and gets married.
The artist in me cries out for design.
A poet never takes notes. You never take notes in a love affair.
Humor is the most engaging cowardice.
Being the boss anywhere is lonely. Being a female boss in a world of mostly men is especially so.
A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.
You have freedom when you're easy in your harness.
The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism it's egotism.
To be social is to be forgiving.
I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.
Freedom lies in being bold.
I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense.
A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body - the wishbone.
I never dared to be radical when young for fear it would make me conservative when old.