By night the skyscraper looms in the smoke and the stars and has a soul.

Corn wind in the fall, come off the black lands, come off the whisper of the silk hangers, the lap of the flat spear leaves.

I never made a mistake in grammar but one in my life and as soon as I done it I seen it.

Read the dictionary from A to Izzard today. Get a vocabulary. Brush up on your diction. See whether wisdom is just a lot of language.

The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.

There is an eagle in me that wants to soar, and there is a hippopotamus in me that wants to wallow in the mud.

I had taken a course in Ethics. I read a thick textbook, heard the class discussions and came out of it saying I hadn't learned a thing I didn't know before about morals and what is right or wrong in human conduct.