e. e. cummings

To be nobody but yourself, in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else, means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.

To be nobody-but-yourself -- in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else -- means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.

A politician is an arse upon which everybody has sat except a man
e. e. cummings - on the death of Warren G. Harding, 1923
The only man, woman, or child who ever wrote a simple declarative sentence with seven grammatical errors is dead.

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

(i do not know what it is about you that closes
and opens; only something in me understands
the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses)

- e. e. cummings