Liberty is one of the imagination's most precious possessions.

Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

The most affectionate creature in the world is a wet dog.

War is God's way of teaching Americans geography.

In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.

Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion.

Admiral. That part of a warship which does the talking while the figurehead does the thinking.

Spring beckons! All things to the call respond; the trees are leaving and cashiers abscond.

NEPOTISM, n. Appointing your grandmother to office for the good of the party.

Divorce: a resumption of diplomatic relations and rectification of boundaries.

Clairvoyant, n.: A person, commonly a woman, who has the power of seeing that which is invisible to her patron - namely, that he is a blockhead.

If you want your life to be successful, you must look inward. You must change how you think before your life can change. You change your thinking. You change your actions. You change your life.

Just the perfect peace of nothingness. That's what I believed.

Never throw the first punch. If you have to throw the second, try to make sure they don't get up for a third.

In the Middle Ages, bloodletting was often performed by barbers, which is why the traditional barber’s pole—like the bloody towels that once hung outside barber shops—is colored red and white.

If you picture Time as a straight line along which we have to travel, then you must think of God as the whole page on which the line is drawn.

White on rice. Green on grass. Sheets on a bed. Him on her.

We all have some ideological quotient in ourselves. And I think it does guide who we are.

A child's instinct is almost perfect in the matter of fighting. The child's hero is always the man or boy who defends himself suddenly and splendidly against aggression.

If we are waiting for guaranteed courses of action, we may spend much of our life waiting.

I'm truly an outsider in the poetry world. When I started writing, I was trying to move my poems away from modernist lines.