I take simple everyday things that happen to me and I figure it happens to a lot of other people and I make simple rhymes out of them.

I'll obey them in the winter when the doctors say to me I must give up ham and spinach, and obedient I'll be. To relieve my indigestion in December they can try, But there's none of them can stop me when it's time for cherry pie.

The proof of a man is the danger test, That shows him up at his worst or best.

You'll be richer in the end than a prince, if you're a friend.

Determination is the thing on which you can depend. It plods along without a swing, but gets there in the end.

You when the storm is raging - how do you face despair? It is you that the world discovers, whatever the clothes you wear.

For Age is not alone of time, or we should never see men old and bent at forty and men young at seventy-three.