To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.

Even a dog knows the difference between being kicked and being stumbled over.

Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.

We call those poets who are first to mark, Through earth's dull mist the coming of the dawn, Who see in twilight's gloom the first pale spark, While others only note that day is gone.

Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else - very rarely to those who say to themselves, 'Go to, now, let us be a celebrated individual!'.

I like children; I like 'em, and I respect 'em. Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by them.

Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads.