The cynics in life are the people who are always trying to do things for people who don't want things done for them.

As for butterflies, I can hardly conceive of one's attending upon you; but to question the congruence of the complement is vain, if it exists.

Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads.

Your thorns are the best part of you.

Any writer overwhelmingly honest about pleasing himself is almost sure to please others.

Originality is... a by-product of sincerity.

Camels are snobbish and sheep, unintelligent; water buffaloes, neurasthenic-- even murderous. Reindeer seem over-serious.

Omissions are not accidents.

The hands are the heart's messengers.

The passion for setting people right is in itself an afflictive disease.

When one cannot appraise out of one's own experience, the temptation to blunder is minimized, but even when one can, appraisal seems chiefly useful as appraisal of the appraiser.

Sometimes the truth hurts because it uncovers the lies people are living

There is no such thing as talent. There is pressure.

I'm married but the special man is my dog, Henry.

All men should freely use those seven words which have the power to make any marriage run smoothly: You know dear, you may be right

It's [motherhood] the biggest on-the-job- training program in existence today.

Now I am almost entirely love.

A child is a life that has not gone too far away from the Creator. Know a child to know life.

From innumerable complexities we must grow to simplicity; we must become simple in our inward life and in our outward needs.

Whenever someone asks me if I want water with my scotch, I say, I'm thirsty, not dirty.

But to me all sciences seem vain and full of error that are not born of experience, mother of all certainty, and do not terminate in an actual experience.