“Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.”

There is one thing more exasperating than a wife who can cook and won’t, and that’s a wife who can’t cook and will.

A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.

The afternoon knows what the morning never suspected.

Nobody was ever meant, To remember or invent, What he did with every cent.

The middle of the road is where the white line is – and that’s the worst place to drive.

Far more violence has been done in obeying the law than in breaking the law.

Good fences make good neighbors.

Friends make pretence of following to the grave but before one is in it, their minds are turned and making the best of their way back to life and living people and things they understand.

The best way out is always through.

A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body – the wishbone.

Live life like its the last breath you take for that breath is the whole essence of living, the little things in life are what connects us to all the big things we live for.

Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.

Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting.

Any work of art must first of all tell a story.

Freedom lies in being bold.

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

Human beings are not creatures of logic; we are creatures of emotion. And we do not care what’s true. We care how it feels.

The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider’s web.

We cannot selectively numb emotions, when we numb the painful emotions, we also numb the positive emotions.

Anxiety is one of the most contagious emotions – that’s why it always takes down groups of people, not just individuals.⁣⁣

Love isn’t an emotion or an instinct – it’s an art.

Fear is not an unknown emotion to us.

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.

The emotion that can break your heart is sometimes the very one that heals it.