The only certain freedom's in departure.

All thought is a feat of association; having what's in front of you bring up something in your mind that you almost didn't know you knew

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

Always fall in with what you're asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever's going. Not against: with.

Freud was way off base in considering sex the fundamental motivation. The ruling passion in men is minding each other's business.

The truly educated can listen to any view without losing their temper or self-confidence.

Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting. . . . Read it a hundred times; it will forever keep its freshness as a metal keeps its fragrance. It can never lose its sense of a meaning that once unfolded by surprise as it went.