The more things we accumulate, the more cluttered our lives become, and the more stressed we feel as we are compelled to think about them. Life is about people not about things.

A person can go along quite awhile if they get a good day every once and again.

It's my rule never to lose my temper until it would be detrimental to keep it.

Plant trees. They give us two of the most crucial elements for our survival: oxygen and books.

Jesus gave us the victory with which He overcame Satan, and commissioned us to cast out devils in His Name.

When I got hoarse, the manager would say, 'Drink this. Joplin used to drink this,' and I used to say, 'Joplin? Joplin's dead

Whatever will bring in the most money will happen.

A gentleman is any man who wouldn't hit a woman with his hat on.

Wink and shut their apprehensions up.

Poets of course are even more unpredictable than other writers, overwhelmed as they are by the moment they inhabit and finding it difficult to connect yesterday with tomorrow.

I've got splinters in my nose from the best publishing doors in town.