The squeaky wheel gets the grease but the quacking duck gets shot.

Poetry is the silence and speech between a wet struggling root of a flower and a sunlit blossom of that flower.

There is only one man in the world and his name is All Men. There is only one woman in the world and her name is All Women. There is only one child in the world and the child's name is All Children.

Often I look back and see that I had been many kinds of a fool-and that I had been happy in being this or that kind of fool.

The past is a bucket of ashes

Shame is the feeling you have when you agree with the woman who loves you that you are the man she thinks you are.

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.