I don't think that scheduling is uncreative. I think that structure is required for creativity.
He will kill mice and he will be kind to babies. . . but when the moon gets up and the night comes, he is the Cat that Walks by Himself.
If you can wait, and not be tired by waiting. . . if you can dream, and not make dreams your master; if you can think, and not make thoughts your aim; if you can meet with Triumph and Disaster, and treat those two impostors just the same;. . . yours is the earth and everything that's in it. . .
For the female of the species is more deadly than the male. A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty. Take my word for it, the silliest woman can manage a clever man; But it takes a very clever woman to manage a fool. I never made a mistake in my life; At least, never one that I couldn't explain away afterwards
When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains, and the women come out to cut up what remains, jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains and go to your gawd like a soldier.
Asia is not going to be civilized after the methods of the West. There is too much Asia and she is too old.
I keep six honest serving men (they taught me all i knew); Theirs names are What and Why and When And How And Where and Who.
People who postpone happiness are like children who try chasing rainbows in an effort to find the pot of gold at the rainbows end. . . Your life will never be fulfilled until you are happy here and now.
I'm impatient sometimes.
[On children:] Being built closer to the floor, they can dust the baseboards in half the time.
The language you use for your poems should be the language you use with your friends.