Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.

The best way out is always through.

Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market.

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.

Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.

Forgive me my nonsense, as I also forgive the nonsense of those that think they talk sense.

Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I'll forgive Thy great big joke on me.

Freedom lies in being bold.

The only certain freedom's in departure.

If society fits you comfortably enough, you call it freedom.

You have freedom when you're easy in your harness.

The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended-and not to take a hint when a hint isn't intended.

You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's.

It's a funny thing that when a man hasn't anything on earth to worry about, he goes off and gets married.

I never dared to be radical when young for fear it would make me conservative when old.

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

Education is hanging around until you've caught on.

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

Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

I go to school the youth to learn the future.

There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.

A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.

The best things and best people rise out of their separateness; I'm against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.

Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.

A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.

A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.

The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... in a clarification of life - not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion.

Being the boss anywhere is lonely. Being a female boss in a world of mostly men is especially so.

There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can't move, and the kind that just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies.

I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense.

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

Poetry is what gets lost in translation.

Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.

Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.

The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination.

The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.

By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.

To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.

I always entertain great hopes.

Space ails us moderns: we are sick with space.

I'd just as soon play tennis with the net down.

Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.

Humor is the most engaging cowardice.

A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body - the wishbone.

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.

The artist in me cries out for design.