Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me.
Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom, if you listen.
Time is the coin of your life. You spend it. Do not allow others to spend it for you.
In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you awake in the morning.
To be a good loser is to learn how to win.
Men of ideas vanish when freedom vanishes.
There are some people who can receive a truth by no other way than to have their understanding shocked and insulted.
There is a warning love sends and the cost of it is never written till long afterward.
The squeaky wheel gets the grease but the quacking duck gets shot.
Every blunder behind us is giving a cheer for us, and only for those who were willing to fail are the dangers and splendors of life.
I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes, so live not in your yesterdays, no just for tomorrow, but in the here and now. Keep moving and forget the post mortems; and remember, no one can get the jump on the future.
Ashes to ashes, dust to dust, if the women don't get you then the whiskey must.
Revolt and terror pay a price. Order and law have a cost.
All we need to begin with is a # dream that we can do better than before. All we need to have is faith, and that dream will come true. All we need to do is act, and the time for action is now.
Look out how you use proud words. When you let proud words go, it is not easy to call them back. They wear long boots, hard boots; they walk off proud; they can't hear you calling. Look out how you use proud words.
A liar is a liar and lives on the lies he tells and dies in a life of lies.
To never see a fool you lock yourself in your room and smash the looking-glass.
Time says hush: by the gong of time you live. Listen and you hear time saying you were silent long before you came to life and you will again be silent long after you leave it, why not be a little silent now? Hush yourself, noisy little man. Time hushes all: the gong of time rang for you to come out of the hush and you were born. The gong of time will ring for you to go back to the same hush you came from. Winners and losers, the weak and the strong, those who say little and try to say it well, and those who babble and prattle their lives away, time hushes all.
A baby is God's opinion that life should go on.
There are dreams stronger than death. Men and women die holding these dreams.
Our lives are like a candle in the wind.
Two bubbles found they had rainbows on their curves. They flickered out saying: "It was worth being a bubble, just to have held that rainbow thirty seconds.
Freedom is baffling: men having it often know not they have it till it is gone and they no longer have it.
And those who say, "I'll try anything once," often try nothing twice, three times, arriving late at the gate of dreams worth dying for.
Poetry is a mystic, sensuous mathematics of fire, smoke-stacks, waffles, pansies, people, and purple sunsets.
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