If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.

Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.

You hear a lot of dialogue on the death of the American family. Families aren't dying. They're merging into big conglomerates.

Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it.

I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty.

It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.

I do not argue with obstinate men. I act in spite of them.

My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.

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

Do it again on the next verse, and people think you meant it.

Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish.

I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.

Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.

The American people should be made aware of the trend toward monopolization of the great public information vehicles and the concentration of more and more power over public opinion in fewer and fewer hands.

There are no good girls gone wrong - just bad girls found out.

I must not write a word to you about politics, because you are a woman.

To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.

Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Sunlight is painting.

Your personal nature seeks its paradise.