I regret less the road not taken than my all-fired hurry along the road I took.

In comparing religious belief to science, I try to remember that science is belief also.

Oh, the things that go through my mind that I never say. Oh, the things I say that never go through my mind.

Now and then it's good to list all the things you regularly do for which there was once a good reason.

A lover's quarrel is always about every quarrel you ever had.

Are you an artist? Look about you. Is there a physical tool whose use you have mastered, a part of your body that responds utterly to your control? Is your motive esthetic? If so, you are an artist. If not, you are probably a writer.

The world knows how to straighten out a spoiled child but never makes it up to a child deprived.