There's real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of reality

The spirit of man is an inward flame; a lamp the world blows upon but never puts out.

If a little is great, and a lot is better, then way too much is just about right!

I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out.

Certainty? In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.

I don't watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.

When we are no longer able to change a situation - we are challenged to change ourselves.

You cant have a plan for your day, til you have a plan for your life.

For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen.

Be like a tree and let the dead leaves drop.

Society is now one polished horde, Formed of two mighty tribes, The Bores and the Bored.

Could be worse . . . I could be Sting.

There is no limit to the amount of good you can do if you don't care who gets the credit.

Quote me as saying I was mis-quoted.

Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are.

There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.

A place for everything, and everything in its place.

It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.

I sound my barbaric yawp over the rooftops of the world.

The joke of our time is the suicide of intention.

Enthusiasm... the sustaining power of all great action.