Man is a victim of dope in the incurable form of hope.

Some tortures are physical And some are mental, But the one that is both Is dental.

Middle-age is when you're sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you.

I would live all my life in nonchalance and insouciance, were it not for making living, which is rather a nouciance.

The door of a bigoted mind opens outwards so that the only result of the pressure of facts upon it is to close it more snugly.

Happiness is having a scratch for every itch.

Behold the Zebra on the plains, And shudder at his mighty manes!

The bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret; we make up our minds every night to leave it early, but we make up our bodies every morning to keep it late.

When I remember bygone days I think how evening follows morn So many I loved were not yet dead, So many I love were not yet born.

Whenever you're wrong, admit it; Whenever you're right, shut up.

Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other who never forgets them.

And prayer? How could you pray to a God you wanted to hit?

President Mandela was never scared to admit his own mistakes and then almost jump at the opportunity of apologising and then to move on.

If you are not reading and thinking, it means that your windows looking to the ocean are closed!

Everything my mother made had to cook for 80 hours, and when she made matzoh balls she didn't know fluffy. Everything sank.

There's the downtown area of Tupelo. Did you see the skyscrapers? Two stories.

But I don't think that poetry is a good, to use a contemporary word, venue, for current events.

Writing is a tool of transformation and can shine the light on the inside, dispelling darkness, taking us through external layers, bringing us closer to our souls.

Happiness is a hound dog in the sun. We aren't on Earth to be happy, but to experience incredible things. - Hannah Schneider

I'd want Puerto Rico to become the 51st state of America.

My work is really a blast. When it stops being a blast, then it ain't no fun no more!