The future ain't what it used to be.

If you've got them by the balls their hearts and minds will follow.

When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.

There is more to sex appeal than just measurements. I don't need a bedroom to prove my womanliness. I can convey just as much sex appeal, picking apples off a tree or standing in the rain.

I can see in your eyes, I can see in your faces, I can see you cry. But what I want to say, there's no reason to cry. Do not, in the name of peace, go in the streets and riot.

There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment

Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.

You can have everything in life that you want if you just give enough other people what they want.

If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.

All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation.

Learn to give, whether you have plenty or little, whether you are happy or in pain.

A friend doesn't go on a diet because you are fat.

An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them.

Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.

Your clothes conceal much of your beauty, yet they hide not the unbeautiful

A great city is the place to escape the true drama of provincial life, and find solace in fantasy.

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.

There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army.

As long as we believe in absurdities we shall continue to commit atrocities.

I must not write a word to you about politics, because you are a woman.

When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.