The mind that finds its way to wild places is the poet's; but the mind that never finds its way back is the lunatic's.

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

I meant what I said and I said what I meant.

The cloud is free only to go with the wind. The rain is free only in falling.

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

Dare to risk public criticism.

I just want to retire before I go senile because if I don't retire before I go senile, then I'll do more damage than good at that point.

To find a man's true character, play golf with him.

Society is now one polished horde, Formed of two mighty tribes, The Bores and the Bored.

Until we're educating every kid in a fantastic way, until every inner city is cleaned up, there is no shortage of things to do.

Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.

Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish.

Give them pleasure. The same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.

We can work together for a better world with men and women of goodwill, those who radiate the intrinsic goodness of humankind.

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

Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.

A place for everything, and everything in its place.

When it is not in our power to determine what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable.

When people start asking you to do the same thing over and over again, that's when you know you're way too close to something that you don't want to be near.

Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.

Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him.