Positano bites deep. It is a dream place that isn’t quite real when you are there and becomes beckoningly real after you have gone.

Don't worry about losing. If it is right, it happens - The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away.

Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.

The free exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world.

And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.

What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.

I believe a strong woman may be stronger than a man, particularly if she happens to have love in her heart. I guess a loving woman is indestructible.

When two people meet, each one is changed by the other so you've got two new people.

Writers are a little below clowns and a little above trained seals.

This I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual.

If you understand each other you will be kind to each other.

What I believe to be true I must therefore preserve. What seems to me so obvious, even against me, I must support.

When you are rich, your past disappears. You get everything you want when you want it . . . Everyone wants to know you. Everyone wants to be your friend.

I like cups of tea and reading books and poetry and old people things.

Poetry from the bottom up is an act of selection: you kind of feel your way through the crowds of poems. The good ones came forward a long time ago, and the bad ones fell away.

There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous.

But when I'm done with the job I can take it off pretty easy, it's like a suit of clothes, put on something else.

There is an English saying, "When the going gets tough, the tough get going." Women often become these tough ones.

Naturally the common people don't want war. . . but after all it is the leaders of a country who determine policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along. . .

You can find out how to do something and then do it or do something and then find out what you did.

God does so love to make a man break a promise.