Not gods, nor men, nor even booksellers have put up with poets' being second-rate.

Carpe diem! Rejoice while you are alive; enjoy the day; live life to the fullest; make the most of what you have. It is later than you think.

Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever.

Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.

Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant.

It is impossible to enslave, mentally or socially, a bible-reading people. The principles of the bible are the groundwork of human freedom.

The great virtue of parents is a great dowry.

It is good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good too, to check up once in a while and make sure you haven't lost the things money can't buy.

Carpe diem. (Seize the day.)

When things are steep, remember to stay level-headed.

Unfaithfulness in the keeping of an appointment is an act of clear dishonesty. You may as well borrow a person's money as his time.

Most writers need to write. I write for money, really. If I won the lottery, I would never write another word. I would rather read.

It is a pity we can't escape from life when we are young.

I always hesitate to call myself a children's poet, and I always hesitate to call what I write for children poetry. Though a few of the verses that I've written, yes, I think they are truly poems.

Nature often seems like an idea that has had its day.

God meets our needs one day at a time.

I did have fun, for example, in The Black Hole which was very popular among youngsters.

Once you face your fear, nothing is ever as hard as you think.

I think everyone's against abortion.

Being afreaid proves you're alive and awake.

Pleasantry is never good on serious points, because it always regards subjects in that point of view in which it is not the purpose to consider them.