"Kisses are a better fate than wisdom."

"Private property began the instant somebody had a mind of his own."

"Nothing recedes like progress."

"Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question."

"I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance."

"I would rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach 10,000 stars how not to dance."

"Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit."

"Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink."

"I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes."

"America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: America is always on the move. She may be going to Hell, of course, but at least she isn't standing still."

"A wind has blown the rain away and blown the sky away and all the leaves away, and the trees stand. I think, I too, have known autumn too long."

"To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting."

"It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are."

"A politician is an arse upon which everyone has sat except a man."

"The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful."

"I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart."

"Listen; there's a hell of a good universe next door: let's go."

"Be of love a little more careful than of anything."

"To destroy is always the first step in any creation."

"I like my body when it is with your body. It is so quite new a thing. Muscles better and nerves more."

"At least the Pilgrim Fathers used to shoot Indians: the Pilgrim Children merely punch time clocks."

"Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense."

"Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination."

"Unbeing dead isn't being alive."

"I imagine that yes is the only living thing."

"The most wasted of all days is one without laughter."