Robert Frost

The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination.

I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.

Being the boss anywhere is lonely. Being a female boss in a world of mostly men is especially so.

The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended-and not to take a hint when a hint isn't intended.

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.

I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense.

The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.

The brain is a wonderful organ it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.

By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.

But yield who will to their separation, My object in living is to uniteMy avocation and my vocationAs my two eyes make one in sight.

I'd just as soon play tennis with the net down.

Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.

Humor is the most engaging cowardice.

You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's.

Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.

Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market.

No tears and the writer no tears and the reader.