A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.

Thinking isn't agreeing or disagreeing. That's voting.

Don't join too many gangs. Join few if any. Join the United States and join the family- But not much in between unless a college.

I never dared to be radical when young for fear it would make me conservative when old.

We can make a little order where we are, and then the big sweep of history on which we can have no effect doesn't overwhelm us. We do it with colors, with a garden, with the furnishings of a room, or with sounds and words. We make a little form, and we gain composure.

But he had gone his way, the grass all mown, And I must be, as he had been - alone, As all must be, I said within my heart, Whether they work together or apart.

Friends make pretence of following to the grave but before one is in it, their minds are turned and making the best of their way back to life and living people and things they understand.