Don’t be vain because you happen to have talent. You are not responsible for that; it was not of your doing. What you do with your talent is what matters.
Sadly, I part from you; Like a clam torn from its shell, I go, and autumn too.
Seek not the paths of the ancients; Seek that which the ancients sought.
The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.
How I long to see among dawn flowers, the face of God.
A weathered skeleton in windy fields of memory, piercing like a knife.
Every moment of life is the last, every poem is a death poem.
[On the Adam and Eve story:] They both fell from innocence, and consequently from happiness, but not from equality.
The mass of the American people are most emphatically not in the deplorable condition of which you speak.
We have a very robust set of plans. And people have looked at both of our plans, have concluded that mine would create 10 million jobs and yours [Donald Trump] would lose us 3. 5 million jobs, and explode the debt which would have a recession.
My son, George, has been a bad, bad boy! Right, George?