Everything has two sides - the outside that is ridiculous, and the inside that is solemn.

I think if I were dying and I heard of an act of injustice, it would start me up to a moment's life again.

There was never a great man who had not a great mother.

My feeling is that there is nothing in life but refraining from hurting others, and comforting those who are sad.

Our fathers had their dreams; we have ours; the generation that follows will have its own. Without dreams and phantoms man cannot exist.

If the bird does like its cage, and does like its sugar and will not leave it, why keep the door so very carefully shut?

Love, smoke and a cough cannot long be hid!

The secret of success is concentration ... Taste everything a little, look at everything a little; but live for one thing.

Ones real deathless wealth is all the beautiful souls one has seen and spiritually touched.

Wisdom never kicks at the iron walls it can't bring down.

I know there will be spring, as surely as the birds know it when they see above the snow two tiny, quivering green leaves. Spring cannot fail us.

What matters most, God was there for me, when I need him.

We sleep in separate rooms, we have dinner apart, we take separate vacations - we're doing everything we can to keep our marriage together.

The question whether the long effort to put an end to war can succeed without another major convulsion challenges not only our minds but our sense of responsibility.

Writing is a way to shape out visible and invisible, in myself as well as in the world.

At no period of the naval history of the world, is it probable that Marines were more important than during the War of the Revolution.

He pulled out turned west and started driving towards the glow it was thousands of miles away, he started driving towards the glow.

Women should not allow themselves to be caught up in the hype that says performance, meaning the motions, is what matters.

The 'data' (given) of research are not so much given as taken out of a constantly elusive matrix of happenings. We should speak of capta rather than data.

The homosexual community has more acceptance in America than it ever has, and the suicide rate is as high as it's always been.

Words too familiar, or too remote, defeat the purpose of a poet.