Time is really the only capital that any human being has, and the only thing he can't afford to lose.
The wretcheder one is, the more one smokes; and the more one smokes, the wretcheder one gets-a vicious circle.
An apple is an excellent thing -- until you have tried a peach.
The best years of a man's life are after he is forty. A man at forty has ceased to hunt the moon.
A little work, a little play, To keep us going - and so, good-day!
Happiness is like time and space-we make and measure it ourselves; it is as fancy, as big, as little, as you please, just a thing of contrasts and comparisons.
Sick I am of idle words, past all reconciling, Words that weary and perplex and pander and conceal, Wake the sounds that cannot lie, for all their sweet beguiling; The language one need fathom not, but only hear and feel.
When you identify with an organization and you want to do stuff [but] you get this inexplicable 'no' - a lot of people get off the end and think, Well, God must have said no to me. No! The organization just said no to you. Find what it is that you were made to do and get on it! Go do what you were made to do.
Being God would be the ultimate.
The Refrigerator" Perry: "I've been big ever since I was little.
"You're next, after the feather dancers. " And you had to get their attention, because otherwise people would go, "Oh, a poet. " You really have to learn.