How should we like it were stars to burn With a passion for us we could not return? If equal affection cannot be, Let the more loving one be me.

God is Love, we are taught as children to believe. But when we first begin to get some inkling of how He loves us, we are repelled; it seems so cold, indeed, not love at all as we understand the word.

My deepest feeling about politicians is that they are dangerous lunatics to be avoided when possible and carefully humored; people, above all, to whom one must never tell the truth.

You know there are no secrets in America. It's quite different in England, where people think of a secret as a shared relation between two people.

In the end, art is small beer. The really serious things are earning one's living so as not to be a parasite and loving one's neighbor.

The element of craftsmanship in poetry is obscured by the fact that all men are taught to speak and most to read and write, while very few men are taught to draw or paint or write music.

No person can be a great leader unless he takes genuine joy in the successes of those under him.