If we must die, let it not be like hogs Hunted and penned in an inglorious spot, If we must die, O let us nobly die.

If a man is not faithful to his own individuality, he cannot be loyal to anything.

Human dignity is more precious than prestige.

I know the dark delight of being strange, The penalty of difference in the crowd, The loneliness of wisdom among fools.

We are like trees. We wear all colors naturally.

Nations, like plants and human beings, grow. And if the development is thwarted they are dwarfed and overshadowed.

It's when you are down that you learn about your faults.

Idealism is like a castle in the air if it is not based on a solid foundation of social and political realism.

If we must die, O let us nobly die.

Adventure-seasoned and storm-buffeted, I shun all signs of anchorage, because The zest of life exceeds the bound of laws.

And, hungry for the old, familiar ways, I turned aside and bowed my head and wept.

A tree that is planted by the riverside blossoms all through because its environment has taking it beyond the realm of seasons.

No matter how dark your current phase of life is, never stop believing that bigger and better blessings are already on the way.

He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty and he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city.

We would have to settle for the elegant goal of becoming ourselves.

When I do a play, it's like agreeing to be ill for a couple of months.

I thought, as I have my living to get, and have not eaten today, that I might go a- fishing. That's the true industry for poets. It is the only trade I have learned.

Of all the passions, fear weakens judgment most.

The purpose of music is to sober and quiet the mind, thus making it susceptible to divine influences.

I am still learning. (at age 87)

We have only one alternative: either to build a functioning industrial society or see freedom itself disappear in anarchy and tyranny.