And I won 'em back fair and square. So what are you going to do about it? Want to fight? Who wants the first bloody nose?

So this was where lust was satisfied. If I'd been an old-time miner I'd have asked for my gold nugget back.

God knows I've got so many frailties myself, I ought to be able to understand and forgive them in others. But I don't.

Men go and come, but earth abides.

Any nation that thinks more of its ease and comfort than its freedom will soon lose its freedom and the ironical thing about it is that it will lose its ease and comfort too.

Wisdom can be learned. But it cannot be taught.

I read a lot of obscure books and it is nice to open a book.

[Martin Luther] King subpoened the nation's conscience. He was killed for it.

There is no trick to it. If you like to write and want to write, you write, no matter where you are or what else you are doing or whether anyone pays any heed.

The innocent moon, that nothing does but shine,Moves all the labouring surges of the world.

Rains driven by storms fall not perpetually on the land already sodden, neither do varying gales for ever disturb the Caspian sea.

Live today to the fullest, and forget about the past. Today you can create a new way of living. You can change all the rules.

You want to live-but do you know how to live? You are scared of dying-and, tell me, is the kind of life you lead really any different from being dead?