I speak for the trees, for the trees have no tongues.

There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.

The mind that finds its way to wild places is the poet's; but the mind that never finds its way back is the lunatic's.

Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain but it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving.

There's real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of reality

It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.

Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it.

Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real.

To find a man's true character, play golf with him.

An intellectual is a man who doesn't know how to park a bike.

Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.

There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.

The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.

I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.

Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.

We can work together for a better world with men and women of goodwill, those who radiate the intrinsic goodness of humankind.

For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen.

Reverence does not die with mortals, nor does it perish whether they live or die.

I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.