I thought, There goes my lord, whom I was born to follow. I have found a King. And, I said to myself, looking after him as he walked away, I will have him, if I die for it.

One must live as if it would be forever, and as if one might die each moment. Always both at once.

It is better to believe in men too rashly, and regret, than believe too meanly. Men could be more than they are, if they would try for it. He has shown them that.

It is bitter to lose a friend to evil before one loses him to death.

All men seek esteem; the best by lifting themselves, which is hard to do, the rest by shoving others down, which is much easier.

How can people trust the harvest, unless they see it sown?

A man is at his youngest when he thinks he is a man, not yet realizing that his actions must show it.

Everything is change; and you cannot step twice into the same river.

The rightness of a thing isn't determined by the amount of courage it takes.

Often beauty grows dull or common when speech breaks the mask.

You can make an audience see nearly anything, if you yourself believe in it.

Actions not words are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.

I've seen it over the years, the more intellectual they are, the more work they don't want to do. You have to do both, you have to be able to put in the graft.

There's a lot of unconscious activity that goes on I think in the composition of a poem.

I've been in rage all my life at this thing we call 'society'

We are all creatures of habit. We can do most things without even thinking about them; our bodies take charge and do them for us.

I can't do comedy that is cutting and vicious. If I knew I'd said something that was going to make someone feel bad, well, that supersedes everything.

Women can be vivacious. We are allowed more varieties of facial expression and gestures. Men must be rocklike.

Something inside me had dropped away, and nothing came in to fill the cavern.

Ambition is the grand enemy of all peace.

This country maintains that there is no political prisoners, that everybody is criminals, but it's just not true.