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

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

When one door is closed, don't you know that many more are open

Only those with no memory insist on their originality.

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

Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.

Be like a tree and let the dead leaves drop.

Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway.

You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it.

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

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

Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.

Never accept a drink from a urologist.

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.

The last of human freedoms - the ability to chose one's attitude in a given set of circumstances.

Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.

There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.

We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.

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

By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.

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