Just as soon as the uplifters get a country reformed it slips into a nose dive.

Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.

By the time a bartender knows what drink a man will have before he orders, there is little else about him worth knowing.

Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.

Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.

Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates.

When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?'

Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.

A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists.

The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.

A fierce unrest seethes at the core, of all existing things:, it was the eager wish to soar, that gave the gods their wings.

Perfect was my only option.

The Christmas gift of peace was the uncoiling of the links of a triple chain that first unites a person with God, then with himself, then with his neighbor.

I just don't know how to date.

I'm definitely allergic, by the way, but I love kitty cats.

the past held only this wisdom: that love was a damaging mistake, and its accomplice, hope, a treacherous illusion

Don't use time and words carelessly - neither can be retrieved.

Obama really does recognize the threats that are out there; I think he understands the world. He understands the role of America in that troubled world.

The deep blue of your eyes had secrets. I wanted them.

At all events there is in Brooklyn something that makes me feel at home.

Either there is a God or there isn't. Both possibilities are frightening.