Death is appalling to those of the most iron nerves, when it comes quietly and in the stillness and solitude of night.

Ignorance and superstition ever bear a close and mathematical relation to each other.

It is better for a man to die at peace with himself than to live haunted by an evil conscience!

There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore.

Hope is the most treacherous of all human fancies.

Individuality is the aim of political liberty.

The press, like fire, is an excellent servant, but a terrible master.

Party leads to vicious, corrupt and unprofitable legislation, for the sole purpose of defeating party.

Friendship that flows from the heart cannot be frozen by adversity, as the water that flows from the spring cannogt congeal in winter.

A soul,--a spark of the never-dying flame that separates man from all the other beings of earth.

The expanse of the ocean is seldom seen by the novice with indifference.

The failure of so many marriages is due to their getting married out of animal passion and not out of love.

How I want to see the mountains, rivers, sunshine, and ruined fortresses! Let the wind course over us until we become beautiful

Success in creating AI would be the biggest event in human history. Unfortunately, it might also be the last, unless we learn how to avoid the risks.

Ordering a man to write a poem is like commanding a pregnant woman to give birth to a red-headed child.

The devil, you see, is that friend who never stays with us to the end.

Violence, whether spiritual or physical, is a quest for identity and the meaningful. The less identity, the more violence.

A mind might ponder its thought for an epoch, and not gain so much self-knowledge as the passion of love shall teach in a day.

For sixty years I have been forgetful every minute, but not for a second has this flowing toward me stopped or slowed.

I think I might write a book. I like writing. People have asked me if I would get into politics, but I think I feel a lot more effective being a representative of truth through the arts.