“The direction of the mind is more important than its progress.”

Imagination is the eye of the soul.

Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.

Innocence is always unsuspicious.

Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision.

It is easy to understand God as long as you don’t try to explain him.

Be charitable and indulge to everyone, but thyself.

He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.

One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet.

Justice is the truth in action.

When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees.

Ask the young. They know everything.

A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.

Space is to place as eternity is to time.

We must respect the past, and mistrust the present, if we wish to provide for the safety of the future.

Politeness is the flower of humanity.

I’m used to having money and the stuff I do, but it’s more of how I’m doing it now. I walk outside and people know me, and I really get paid for shows.

Florida sends me a handicap sticker when I’m there. It’s embarrassing. But I can’t walk more than six holes before the whole knee swells up, and then I can’t go anymore.

I wanna have more majors than Jack Nicklaus.

As life nears its end with me, I find myself meditating more and more upon the mystery of its nature and origin, yet without the least hope that I can find out the ways of the Eternal in this or in any other world.

But we are more than logical. We are human beings, and we have faith, and we have hope, and we can work.

Women are about the best lovers of nature, after all; at least of nature in her milder and more familiar forms.

More than any other poet, Whitman is what we make him; more than any other poet, his greatest value is in what he suggests and implies rather than in what he portrays, and more than any other poet must he wait to be understood by the growth of the taste of himself.

Mankind has probably done more damage to the Earth in the 20th century than in all of previous human history.