To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.
The artist in me cries out for design.
The best way out is always through.
Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.
Freedom lies in being bold.
The only certain freedom's in departure.
A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.
Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market.
Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.
I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense.
Humor is the most engaging cowardice.
Being the boss anywhere is lonely. Being a female boss in a world of mostly men is especially so.
A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.
The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended-and not to take a hint when a hint isn't intended.
You have freedom when you're easy in your harness.
The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism it's egotism.
Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.
The brain is a wonderful organ it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.
The world is full of willing people some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.
I never dared to be radical when young for fear it would make me conservative when old.
There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.
A poet never takes notes. You never take notes in a love affair.
You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's.
Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I'll forgive Thy great big joke on me.
The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything.
I go to school the youth to learn the future.
I'd just as soon play tennis with the net down.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.
Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.
If you don't know how great this country is, I know someone who does Russia.
The best things and best people rise out of their separateness I'm against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.
Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.
It's a funny thing that when a man hasn't anything on earth to worry about, he goes off and gets married.
A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body - the wishbone.
A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.
Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
Education is hanging around until you've caught on.
To be social is to be forgiving.
Poetry is what gets lost in translation.
A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.
I always entertain great hopes.