I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.

No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.

I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do.

That which costs little is less valued.

Jests that give pains are not jests.

True valor lies between cowardice and rashness.

Of puns it has been said that those who most dislike them are those who are least able to utter them.

The English contribution to world cuisine - the chip.

Do it again on the next verse, and people think you meant it.

With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.

By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.

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

How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.

All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it.

Your personal nature seeks its paradise.

An idea is salvation by imagination

There are no facts, only interpretations.

A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and their motives - of approving of some and disapproving of others

A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.