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