Only the rich are lonesome.

..we wear the mask that grins and lies, it hides our cheeks and shades our eyes- this debt we pay to human guile; with torn and bleeding hearts we smile.

Hope is tenacious. It goes on living and working when science has dealt it what should be its deathblow.

With our short sight we affect to take a comprehensive view of eternity. Our horizon is the universe.

I hope there is something worthy in my writings and not merely the novelty of a black face associated with the power to rhyme that has attracted attention.

A minute to smile and an hour to weep in, A pint of joy to a peck of trouble, And never a laugh but the moans come double; And that is life!

Poor conceited humanity! Interpreters of God indeed.

All play and no work makes Jack a mere toy.

I know what the caged bird feels, alas!

We reduce the deity to vulgar fractions. We place our own little ambitions and label them ?divine messages?. With our short sight we affect to take a comprehensive view of eternity.

A song fluttered down in the form of a dove, And it bore me a message, the one word-Love!

Every man has an ambition. Let it be a good one. Just drive toward it with enthusiasm.

But show me just this one thing, my darling, i seek a heart stained like a poppy flower.

The days draw out, the weather gets warmer, and it's what we call summer, with a bitter laugh when we've said it.

He shall spurn fate, scorn death, and bear His hopes 'bove wisdom, grace and fear:And you all know, securityIs mortals' chiefest enemy.

A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.

When they tried to draft me, I earned a college degree.

When you just get mixed up & there's too much going on, then it's time to pick up your guitar.

When we consciously and deliberately develop new and better habits, our self image tends to outgrow the old habits and grow into the new pattern.

No facts to me are sacred; none are profane.

No man can be held throughout the day by what happens throughout the night.