An optimist is a guy that has never had much experience.

Fate often puts all the material for happiness and prosperity into a man's hands just to see how miserable he can make himself with them.

When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?'

Every cloud has its silver lining but it is sometimes a little difficult to get it to the mint.

Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.

Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.

Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun.

Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.

An idea isn't responsible for the people who believe in it.

Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun.

Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.

I would rather start a family than finish one.

Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.

Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.