One should always be a little improbable.

Many people become bankrupt through having invested too heavily in the prose of life. To have ruined one's self over poetry is an honor.

Schools should be the most beautiful place in every town and village-so beautiful that the punishment for undutiful children should be barred from going to school the following day.

As one knows the poet by his fine music, so one can recognize the liar by his rich rhythmic utterance, and in neither case will the casual inspiration of the moment suffice. Here, as elsewhere, practice must precede perfection.

One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.

The man who says his wife can't take a joke, forgets that she took him.

The best revenge is to live well.