I have often noticed that ancestors never boast of the descendants who boast of ancestors. I would rather start a family than finish one. Blood will tell, but often it tells too much.

Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.

It wont be long now it wont be long man is making deserts of the earth it wont be long now before man will have used it up so that nothing but ants and centipedes and scorpions can find a living on it.

The things that I can't have I want, And what I have seems second-rate, The things I want to do I can't, And what I have to do I hate.

it is better to be a part of beauty for one instant and then cease to exist than to exist forever and never be a part of beauty

A demagogue is a person with whom we disagree as to which gang should mismanage the country.

A little while with grief and laughter, And then the day will close; The shadows gather ... what comes after No man knows.