"The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age."

"Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their consciences and ask themselves with how many people and on how many occasions they have genuinely and profoundly shared some experience with another."

"Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead."

"I'll love you, dear, I'll love you till China and Africa meet and the river jumps over the mountain and the salmon sing in the street."

"Wisdom principle 95 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 54."

"I give a speech to the black freshmen at Harvard each year, and I say, 'You can like Mozart and ice hockey...' - and then I used to say 'golf,' but Tiger took over golf! - 'and Picasso and still be as black as the ace of spades.'"

"It is a radiant truth that the greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Wisdom principle 47 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 9."