I seldom deal in symbolisms; if there be hidden meanings in my verse, they are there without my knowledge.

Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse. Murphy's First Corollary If you tell the boss you were late for work because you had a flat tire, the next morning you will have a flat tire.

Aesthetic freedom is like free speech; it is, indeed, a form of free speech.

Always begin anew with the day, just as nature does. It is one of the sensible things that nature does.

Thrashing is not the most noticeably awful of disappointments. Not to have attempted is the genuine disappointment.

I am quite sure that no friendship yields its true pleasure and nobility of nature without frequent communication, sympathy and service.

If you can't have faith in what is held up to you for faith, you must find things to believe in yourself, for a life without faith in something is too narrow a space to live.

Agitation is that part of our intellectual life where vitality results; there ideas are born, breed and bring forth.

The school of life embodies a compulsory education that no man escapes.

"Old times" never come back and I suppose it's just as well. What comes back is a new morning every day in the year, and that's better.

The sweetest roamer is a boy's young heart.

He felt if he could not be alone, and if he could not be left alone, he would die.

Women are perfectly well aware that the more they seem to obey the more they rule.

Every success in limiting armaments is a sign that the will to achieve mutual understanding exists, and every such success thus supports the fight for international law and order.

... if the Republicans don't bring prosperity, who on earth is going to?

I like bossy girls. I don't like girls who just do whatever they think you want them to do, and follow you around trying to please you all the time.

It's mostly directors whom I get starstruck around.

I think everyone has a girl crush on Rihanna. Who else? Charlize Theron, she's hot. Scarlett Johansson, I just love all those bombshells!

History is the siren song of the soul.

I am no more lonely than the loon on the pond that laughs so loud.