“Earth’s the right place for love. I don’t know where it’s likely to go better.”

There are tones of voices that mean more than words.

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

The beauty of enmity is insecurity; the beauty of friendship is in security.

Education doesn’t change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.

What is done is done for the love of it – or not really done at all.

Come grow old with me, for the best is yet to come!

You don’t have to deserve your mother’s love. You have to deserve your father s. He’s more particular. The father is always a Republican towards his son, and his mother’s always a Democrat.

College is a refuge from hasty judgment.

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.

It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn’t feel like a giant. I felt very, very small.

Independence? That’s middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.

It is easy to proclaim all souls equal in the sight of God; it is hard to make men equal on earth in the sight of men.

It’s a great thing for a man to walk on the moon. But it’s a greater thing for God to walk on the earth.

Nobody on the face of the earth can make you feel inferior without your permission.

Every day above earth is a good day.

A lake is a landscape’s most beautiful and expressive feature. It is Earth’s eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature.

The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.