"Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly."

"Moving between the legs of tables and of chairs, rising or falling, grasping at kisses and toys, advancing boldly, sudden to take alarm, retreating to the corner of arm and knee, eager to be reassured, taking pleasure in the fragrant brilliance of the Christmas tree."

"I had seen birth and death but had thought they were different."

"For love would be love of the wrong thing there is yet faith, But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting."

"Small business is the backbone of our economy. I'm for big business, too. But small business is where the jobs are generated."

"Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it."

"The first rule of business is: Do other men for they would do you."

"Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable."