1. “Time is a sandpile we run our finger in.”
2. “A book is never a master: it becomes one.”
3. “Revolt and terror pay a price. Order and law have a cost.”
4. “There is only one child in the world and the Child’s name is All Children.”
5. “A baby is God’s opinion that the world should go on.”
6. “Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.”
7. “Time is the coin of your life. You spend it. Do not allow others to spend it for you.”
8. “Life is like an onion; you peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.”
9. “Death comes once, let it be easy.”
10. “A moon is friend for the lonesome to talk to.”
11. “Poetry is an echo asking a shadow to dance.”
12. “Be careful with your words, once they are said, they can only be forgiven, not forgotten.”
13. “Nothing happens unless first we dream.”
14. “Money buys everything except love, personality, freedom, immortality, silence, peace.”
15. “Love your neighbor as yourself but don’t take down the fence.”
16. “Our lives are like a candle in the wind.”
17. “Now is the time. It is never too late to start something.”
18. “The greatest cunning is to have none at all.”
19. “Money is power, freedom, a cushion, the root of all evil, the sum of blessings.”
20. “The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.”
21. “Poetry is a packsack of invisible keepsakes.”
22. “Arithmetic is numbers you squeeze from your head to your pencil to your paper till you get the answer.”
23. “There are dreams stronger than death. Men and women die holding these dreams.”
24. “To be a good loser is to learn how to win.”
25. “A tree is best measured when it is down – and so it is with people.”
26. “It is the business of little minds to shrink.”
27. “Men of ideas vanish when freedom vanishes.”
28. “A liar is a liar and lives on the lies he tells and dies in a life of lies.”
29. “In democracy both a deep reverence and a sense of the comic are requisite.”
30. “Poetry is an art practiced with th terribly plastic material of human language.”
