Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.

A good goal is like a strenuous exercise - it makes you stretch.

All battles are fought by scared men who'd rather be some place else.

Give up trying to make me give up

It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.

When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.

The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good thing for the first time.

I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty.

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

In the United States today, we have more than our share of the nattering nabobs of negativism.

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.

Forewarned, forearmed. To be prepared is half the victory.

If a little is great, and a lot is better, then way too much is just about right!

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

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.

I don't say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could.

I've got a woman's ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it.

I've had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn't it.

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

Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.

Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates.