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

The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.

The difference between a man and his valet: they both smoke the same cigars, but only one pays for them.

Why make so much of fragmentary blue In here and there a bird, or butterfly, Or flower, or wearing-stone, or open eye, When heaven presents in sheets the solid hue?

I write to find out what I didn't know I knew.

The middle of the road is where the white line is - and that's the worst place to drive.

It is absurd to think that the only way to tell if a poem is lasting is to wait and see if it lasts. The right reader of a good poem can tell the moment it strikes him that he has taken an immortal wound-that he will never get over it.