Carl Sandburg

“Read the dictionary from A to Izzard today. Get a vocabulary. Brush up on your diction. See whether wisdom is just a lot of language.”

“Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.”

“Time is the coin of your life. You spend it. Do not allow others to spend it for you.”

“A baby is God's opinion that life should go on. A book that does nothing to you is dead. A baby, whether it does anything to you, represents life. If a bad fire should break out in this house and I had my choice of saving the library or the babies, I would save what is alive. Never will a time come...”

“There are people who want to be everywhere at once, and they get nowhere.”

“Tell no man anything, for no man listens Yet hold thy lips ready to speak.”