To be a good loser is to learn how to win.

Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.

Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.

When a nation goes down, or a society perishes, one condition may always be found; they forgot where they came from. They lost sight of what had brought them along.

I learned you can't trust the judgment of good friends.

Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.

I doubt if you can have a truly wild party without liquor.

Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.

A baby is God's opinion that life should go on.

Life is like an onion. You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.

I doubt if you can have a truly wild party without liquor.

Nothing happens unless first we dream.

We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.

The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.

In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you awake in the morning.

The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.

Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom, if you listen.

I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes, so live not in your yesterdays, no just for tomorrow, but in the here and now. Keep moving and forget the post mortems; and remember, no one can get the jump on the future.

Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed.

Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me.

Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during the moment.

Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.