The enslaver is enslaved, the hater, harmed.

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.

Share your wisdom. It is the best way to help in the progress of life and humanity.

A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o'clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone.

You don't have to explain something you haven't said.

It’s never lost on me that it was the religious who Jesus had to challenge not to throw stones.

I never learned how to tie my shoes, and I was mocked for that. I still don't know how to.

The stronger the facts are there, you should achieve justice. You don't need to make sensationalized statements.

I grew up in a show-business family, but we were working-class show business. There was nothing glamorous about it. You had great things one day and the next day, nothing.

Once you go from 10 people to 100, you already don’t know who everyone is. So at that stage you might as well keep growing, to get the advantages of scale.

I can't swim and I'm terrified of drowning, but I still love being by water - just not in it.

You need that same creative force that exists in a building like Disney [Walt Disney Concert Hall] to actually tackle that most prosaic of problems.