There is a serious defect in the thinking of someone who wants -- more than anything else -- to become rich. As long as they don't have the money, it'll seem like a worthwhile goal. Once they do, they'll understand how important other things are -- and have always been.

Vote early and vote often.

Everything ultimately fails, for we die, and that is either the penultimate failure or our most enigmatical achievement.

And beauty, for confiding youth, Those shocks of passion can prepare That kill the bloom before its time, And blanch, without the owner's crime, The most resplendent hair.

A worthless woman! mere cold clay As all false things are! but so fair, She takes the breath of men away Who gaze upon her unaware: I would not play her larcenous tricks To have her looks!

Old hippies don't die, they just lie low until the laughter stops and their time comes round again.

Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen, both when we wake, and when we sleep.

Behold the Sea, The opaline, the plentiful and strong, Yet beautiful as is the rose in June, Fresh as the trickling rainbow of July; Sea full of food, the nourisher of kinds, Purger of earth, and medicine of men; Creating a sweet climate by my breath, Washing out harms and griefs from memory, And, in my mathematic ebb and flow, Giving a hint of that which changes not.

We do not know what to do with this short life, yet we want another which will be eternal.

The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for.

So of cheerfulness, or a good temper, the more it is spent, the more of it remains.

It is part of the cure to wish to be cured.

Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness, you have good manners, no matter what fork you use.

How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours. .

Families with babies and families without babies are sorry for each other.

Your ignorance cramps my conversation.

These riches are possess'd, but not enjoy'd!

You accept certain unlovely things about yourself and manage to live with them. The atonement for such an acceptance is that you make allowances for others - that you cleanse yourself of the sin of self-righteousness.

Next to being shot at and missed, nothing is quite as satisfying as an income tax refund.

. . . A man of the world amongst men of letters, a man of letters amongst men of the world.