"The most wasted of all days is one without laughter."
"I imagine that yes is the only living thing."
"The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful."
"Be of love a little more careful than of anything."
"Private property began the instant somebody had a mind of his own."
"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."
"It takes three to make a child."
"At least the Pilgrim Fathers used to shoot Indians: the Pilgrim Children merely punch time clocks."
"Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink."
"Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination."
"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."
"I like my body when it is with your body. It is so quite new a thing. Muscles better and nerves more."
"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."
"Unbeing dead isn't being alive."
"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."
"I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance."
"To destroy is always the first step in any creation."
"Kisses are a better fate than wisdom."
"Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense."
"Listen; there's a hell of a good universe next door: let's go."
"Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question."
"A politician is an arse upon which everyone has sat except a man."
"I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach 10,000 stars how not to dance."
"To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't white."