Things could be worse. Suppose your errors were counted and published everyday, like those of a baseball player.

With us, when you speak of ‘the river,’ though there be many, you mean always the same one, the great river, the shifting, unappeasable god of the country, feared and loved the Mississippi.

And would it not be proud romance Falling in some obscure advance, To rise, a poppy field of France?

It is a very nice world-that is, if you remember that while morals are all-important between the Lord and His creatures, what counts between one creature and another is good manners.

I have a need of silence and of stars. Too much is said too loudly. I am dazed. The silken sound of whirled infinity Is lost in voices shouting to be heard.

I suspect anyway that the important things we learn we never remember because they become a part of us, we absorb them...we don't absorb multiplication tables.

No town can keep a man, but men keep towns.

The deepest rivers make least din, The silent soule doth most abound in care.

While as he yet doth breath extend, no man is blest; behold the end.

Not beauty, no, but virtue rais'd my fires, whose sacred flame did cherish chaste desires.

How some dare scorn (as if a fabulous lie) that they should rise whom death to dust doth bind -- and like to beasts, a beastly life they lead, who naught attend save death when they are dead.

Ack!" I said.Fearless master of the witty dialogue, that's me.

As long as one heart still holds on, then hope is never really gone

The key to success is failure… Success is made of 99 percent failure.

Technology alone isn't enough. To really get the money shots, it's down to being in the right place at the right time.

The good thing is we got the Yankees three times at the end of the season.

I am not going to be dictated to by the size of the camera. I use everything from an 8 x 10 to a 35-mm. But I don't use these modern cameras which break down all the time !

Alain will do everything in his power to win, he doesn't like getting beaten by anyone and least of all me.

Take care what you say before a wall, as you cannot tell who may be behind it.

I wanted to be a composer for a while, and for a while, and maybe still, I found writing music much easier than writing poetry. So maybe my brain clings to it.