I dream of silent verses where the rhyme glides noiseless as an oar.

A little common sense, goodwill, and a tiny dose of unselfishness could make this goodly earth into an earthly paradise.

All nations teach their children to be "patriotic", and abuse the other nations for fostering nationalism.

Patriotism is a lively sense of collective responsibility.

Cats are like donkeys and camels, they won't ever quite give in to human tyranny, they won't try to imitate the human soul.

Such shame is not even skin deep. And as to forgetting, surely, you know that is Woman's First and Greatest Art?

By the sense of mystery I understand the experience of certain places and times when one's whole nature seems to be in touch with a presence, a genius loci, a potency.

No man who has managed to keep out of an office can be called a failure in life.

At night, the moon, a pregnant woman, walks cautiously over the slippery heavens.

Millions of human vermin swarm sweating along the night-arched cavernous roads. (Happily rapid chemical processes will disintegrate them all.

How on earth did it come about that all the things denounced in the Gospels are violently defended by the Christian sects?

I was getting an A for work. But not for talent. The story of my life.

Be the great person you ought to be.

Trust me, I write fiction.

You know, one race will not be a survivor if the other one dies, and that's something that we should think about.

I worship the ground Paul Ryan walks on.

influence which is given on the side of money is usually against truth.

Your day usually goes the way the corners of your mouth turn. The most powerful single thing you can do to influence others is to smile at them.

You might be a redneck if you think the O.J. trial was the big Sunkist and Minutemaid taste test.

The essential tendency of life is toward happiness . . . . Optimism is the only true condition for a reasonable man.

I thought LeBron James was just going to be another addition to help me score