“Be of love a little more careful than of anything.”

“The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.”

“Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink.”

“Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.”

“I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.”

“To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else - means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.”

“On the night of New Years Day, I thought of a wonderful New Years resolution for the men who run the world: get to know the people who only live in it.”

“The difference between a politician and a statesman is that a politician thinks about the next election while the statesman think about the next generation.”

“He was a consummate politician-- which is to say he was given to expedient speech and lacked even a vestigial spine.”