The best way for a person to have happy thoughts is to count his blessings and not his cash. Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

I hope to leave behind a few poems it will be hard to get rid of.

When work becomes play, and play becomes your work, your life unfolds.

Let him that is without stone among you cast the first thing he can lay his hands on.

Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.

In A Glass of Cider It seemed I was a mite of sediment That waited for the bottom to ferment So I could catch a bubble in ascent. I rode up on one till the bubble burst, And when that left me to sink back reversed I was no worse off than I was at first. I'd catch another bubble if I waited. The thing was to get now and then elated.

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