Newspapers tell beforehand what is going to happen - maybe.

Be careful with your words, once they are said, they can only be forgiven, not forgotten.

Poetry is a shuffling of boxes of illusions buckled with a strap of facts.

Hog butcher for the world, Tool maker, stacker of wheat, Player with railroads and the nation's freight handler; Stormy, husky, brawling, City of big shoulders.

Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by.

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.

Every blunder behind us is giving a cheer for us, and only for those who were willing to fail are the dangers and splendors of life.