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

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

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.

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.

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.

The greatest service, you can do, to the existence, is serving yourself. If you serve yourself and take care of, yourself, anything that comes out of you, will add meaning and beauty to life.

Impatience kills quickly.

Every growth on this planet is at the cost of loss to some one. No one can deny it or proove it wrong.

... we live in a society of larvae--immature human beings, adolescents disguised as adults.

New York City has finally hired women to pick up the garbage, which makes sense to me, since, as I've discovered, a good bit of being a woman consists of picking up garbage.

A man often runs the risk of throwing away a witticism if he admits that it is his own.

To me, what makes an artist is a unique personality that they're not afraid to let show.

Movies were never an art form, they were entertainment. It just evolved into an art form from there, and it's still evolving in different ways.

If you spend your life trying to please people or letting them control you, you may make them happy, but you'll miss your destiny.

Even when the wound is healed the scar remains.