It is as useless to fight against the interpretations of ignorance as to whip the fog.

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.

Don't judge a book by its cover

A man's a man. But when you see a king, you see the work of many thousand men.

Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.

The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.

The rich ate and drank freely, accepting gout and apoplexy as things that ran mysteriously in respectable families.

Plainness has its peculiar temptations and vices quite as much as beauty.

What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

Don't you meddle with me, and I won't meddle with you.

A single thought can shift your entire world.

As Borges has taught us, all the books in the library are contemporary. Great poems are like granaries: they are always ready to enlarge their store.

A zero-gravity flight is a first step toward space travel.

Nobody can have the consolations of religion or philosophy unless he has first experienced their desolations.

I don't think anything changes until ideas change.

I think one ages and one dates. I tend to have a good deal of difficulty in liking some of the new poets.

Sometimes when a man gets older he has a revelation and wants awfully bad to get back to the place where he left his life, but he can't get to that place- not often.

I'm not saying we don't need health care reform. We do need health care reform.

Dying should not be a taxable event.

I hate handing over money to people for doing what I could just as easily do myself, it makes me nervous.