My publishers will make any kind of a beautiful book I design and send in to them, but ... For poetry they have less use than a rooster would have for skates.

Sometimes it seems to me that the more we get hurt in this world the decenter it makes us.

Tears were a blessing; they were a relief; they did wash the ache from the heart, ease brain strain, and encourage the soul.

I write as the birds sing, because I must, and usually from the same source of inspiration.

Be sure that you are right; and then go ahead.

it takes the very wisest person there is to know when to talk, and when to keep still.

When any man accumulates more than he can earn with his own hands, he begins to enrich himself at the expense of the youth, the sweat, the blood, the joy of his fellow men.