A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

Come grow old with me, for the best is yet to come!

The first thing I do in the morning is to make my bed and while I am making up my bed I am making up my mind as to what kind of a day I am going to have.

I came from a very intellectual neighborhood. When we played cowboys and Indians as kids, I had to be Gandhi.

Not yesterday I learned to know The love of bare November days Before the coming of the snow.

I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn.

GATHERING LEAVES Spades take up leaves No better than spoons, And bags full of leaves Are light as balloons. I make a great noise Of rustling all day Like rabbit and deer Running away. But the mountains I raise Elude my embrace, Flowing over my arms And into my face. I may load and unload Again and again Till I fill the whole shed, And what have I then? Next to nothing for weight, And since they grew duller From contact with earth, Next to nothing for color. Next to nothing for use. But a crop is a crop, And who's to say where The harvest shall stop?