As things are now going the peace we make, what peace we seem to be making, will be a peace of oil, a peace of gold, a peace of shipping, a peace in brief.without moral purpose or human interest.

Beauty is that Medusa's head which men go armed to seek and sever, and dead will starve and sting forever.

Democracy is never a thing done. Democracy is always something that a nation must be doing.

A man who lives, not by what he loves but what he hates, is a sick man.

There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience.

Once you permit those who are convinced of their own superior rightness to censor and silence and suppress those who hold contrary opinions, just at that moment the citadel has been surrendered.

The only thing about a man that is a man . . . is his mind. Everything else you can find in a pig or a horse.

The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself.

There is no dusk to be, There is no dawn that was, Only there's now, and now, And the wind in the grass.

A poem should not mean but be.

See the world as it truly is, small and blue, beautiful in that eternal silence where it floats.

Who says life is fair, where is that written?

Life never seizes to have a brighter side of it. Unfortunately, many are blindfolded from seeing it because they are fully focused on its dark side.

He didn't pick her

All definitions are a part of the intellectual dissection and compartmentalization of control.

Advice is seldom welcome and those who want it the most always like it the least.

I know you've got to earn people's trust, and you've got to earn it day after day after day.

Nobody sold prints then and prices didn't mean anything. In terms of earning your living, it was a joke.

I can see time," whispered Mogget, so softly that his words were lost.

Early withdrawal from Iraq would result in unarguably, defeat and humiliation for the United States. There's no question. We would be defeated by definition. We would be humiliated in that defeat.

Before I make a mistake, I don't make that mistake.