"I always entertain great hopes."

"I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power."

"The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep."

"A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain."

"Two such as you with such a master speed, cannot be parted nor be swept away, from one another once you are agreed, that life is only life forevermore, together wing to wing and oar to oar."

"My sorrow, when she's here with me, thinks these dark days of autumn rain are beautiful as days can be; she loves the bare, the withered tree; she walks the sodden pasture lane."

"Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market."

"Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard."

"Freedom lies in being bold."

"A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman."

"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on."

"Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired."

"Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in."

"The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended-and not to take a hint when a hint isn't intended."

"Life is tons of discipline. Your first discipline is your vocabulary; then your grammar and your punctuation Then, in your exuberance and bounding energy you say you're going to add to that. Then you add rhyme and meter. And your delight is in that power."

"There is the fear that we shan't prove worthy in the eyes of someone who knows us at least as well as we know ourselves. That is the fear of God. And there is the fear of Man -fear that men won't understand us and we shall be cut of from them."

"My object in living is to uniteMy avocation and my vocationAs my two eyes make one in sight"

"The snake stood up for evil in the Garden."

"And nothing to look backward to with pride, and nothing to look forward to with hope."succ

"Poetry is what gets lost in translation."

"Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words."

"To be social is to be forgiving."

"Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length."

"You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's."

"The artist in me cries out for design."

"Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence."

"Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor."

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

"The best way out is always through."

"The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination."

"It looked as if a night of dark intentWas coming, and not only a night, an age.Someone had better be prepared for rage.There would be more than ocean-water brokenBefore God's last 'Put out the Light' was spoken"

"I'd just as soon play tennis with the net down."

"It's a funny thing that when a man hasn't anything on earth to worry about, he goes off and gets married."

"A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom."

"By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day."

"The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office."

"To be a poet is a condition, not a profession."

"Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper."

"A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness."

"Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind. Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful."

"Four things for success: Work and pray, think and believe."

"It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship."

"Once we roared like lions for liberty; now we bleat like sheep for security! The solution for America's problem is not in terms of big government, but it is in big men over whom nobody stands in control but God."

"Know that you yourself are a miracle."

"We struggle with the complexities and avoid the simplicities."

"People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success."

"Don't duck the most difficult problems. That just insures that the hardest part will be left when you're most tired. Get the big one done - it's downhill from then on."

"When a problem comes along, study it until you are completely knowledgeable. Then find that weak spot, break the problem apart, and the rest will be easy."

"Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds."

"Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities -- always see them, for they're always there."