Publishing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.

Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.

By the time a bartender knows what drink a man will have before he orders, there is little else about him worth knowing.

Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.

Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.

Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates.

When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?'

Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.

A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists.

The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.

A fierce unrest seethes at the core, of all existing things:, it was the eager wish to soar, that gave the gods their wings.

Do all the works you can while you still have the strength to work.

I must be lean & write & make worlds beside this to live in.

I was perfectly happy in my boring life before you came along.

Even hell will give you an incentive not to reach for heaven.

I want to stay involved in sports in one way or another.

I have lived to know that the secret of happiness is never to allow your energies to stagnate.

When I go to the movies, I like romance, comedy, and thrillers. I hate gore.

If someone like Musalia [Mudavadi ] ruled Kenya, he would not be able to effect the radical changes I talk about.

The only thing worse than a bad review from the Ayatollah Khomeini would be a good review from the Ayatollah Khomeini.

To the frivolous Christianity is certainly not glad tidings, for it wishes first of all to make them serious.