The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader. I know people who read without hearing the sentence sounds and they were the fastest readers. Eye readers we call them. They get the meaning by glances. But they are bad readers because they miss the best part of what a good writer puts into his work.

The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.

You can be a rank insider as well as a rank outsider.

I am not a nature poet. There is almost always a person in my poems.

Freedom is when you are easy in the harness.

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.

It takes all sorts of in and outdoor schooling To get adapted to my kind of fooling.