"If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month."

"Don't foul, don't flinch. Hit the line hard."

"We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be done."

"Every reform movement has a lunatic fringe."

"I think it's very much a distraction to the ball club, and that is a cancer, you just get done playing the best team in baseball, the team has been playing very well, despite everything ... it's just a distraction, and it is a cancer,"

"Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall."

"The need of expansion is as genuine an instinct in man as the need in a plant for the light, or the need in man himself for going upright. The love of liberty is simply the instinct in man for expansion."

"Still bent to make some port he knows not where, still standing for some false impossible shore."

"The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next."

"[Oxford] whispering from her towers the last enchantments of the Middle Age . . . Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!"

"It looked as if a night of dark intentWas coming, and not only a night, an age.Someone had better be prepared for rage.There would be more than ocean-water brokenBefore God's last 'Put out the Light' was spoken"

"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."

"The only way round is through."

"The first thing I do in the morning is to make my bed and while I am making up my bed I am making up my mind as to what kind of a day I am going to have."

"They cannot scare me with their empty spaces between stars -- on stars where no human race is. I have it in me so much nearer home to scare myself with my own desert places."

"The land was ours before we were the land s. She was our land more than a hundred years before we were her people."

"Keep cold, young orchard. Goodbye and keep cold. / Dread fifty above more than fifty below."

"All thought is a feat of association; having what's in front of you bring up something in your mind that you almost didn't know you knew"

"This as it will be seen is other far / Than with brooks taken otherwhere in song. / We love the things we love for what they are."

"One could do worse than be a swinger of birches."

“At eighty-two, I feel like a twenty-year-old, but, unfortunately, there's never one around.” 

“I know why superman left krypton. Earth was the only place where he could get steriods!” 

“I can't tell you his age, but when he was born the wonder drug was Mercurochrome.” 

Still, to be urged to write and to be urged to publish are two different things and nobody so far was urging her to do the latter.