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

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

The female of all species are most dangerous when they appear to retreat.

In order to influence a child, one must be careful not to be that child's parent or grandparent.

No form of government matters nearly as much as the spirit and intelligence brought to the administration of any form of government.

Vibrations are the key to everything. Atoms used to be, but atoms have quite gone out.

That stern and rockbound coast felt like an amateur when it saw how grim the puritans that landed on it were.