I've been looking for a girl like you - not you, but a girl like you.

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.

A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world.

Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.

The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.

If from Society we learn to live Tis Solitude should teach us how to die; It hath no flatterers.

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

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

Anything that makes weak - physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison.

Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise.

Self-esteem comes from being able to define the world in your own terms and refusing to abide by the judgments of others.

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

Could be worse . . . I could be Sting.

Comedy is acting out optimism.

All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.

It is a process of diverting one's scattered forces into one powerful channel.

Do unto those downstream as you would have those upstream do unto you.

Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.

I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.

Common sense is the most widely shared commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it.