Impatience is the mark of independence, not of bondage.

The cynics in life are the people who are always trying to do things for people who don't want things done for them.

Omissions are not accidents.

My father used to say, "Superior people never make long visits, have to be shown Longfellows grave, or the glass flowers at Harvard."

There never was a war that was not inward; I must fight till I have conquered in myself what causes war.

Poetry is all nouns and verbs.

You're not free until you've been made captive by supreme belief.