It's almost worth having been in the army for the joy your freedom gives you.

People don't choose their careers; they are engulfed by them.

If there is a special Hades for writers is would be in the forced contemplation of their own works.

Individuality is freedom lived.

The creation of a world view is the work of a generation rather than of an individual, but we each of us, for better or for worse, add our brick to the edifice.

The mind cannot support moral chaos for long. Men are under as strong a compulsion to invent an ethical setting for their behavior as spiders are to weave themselves webs

Democracy evolves where freedom is able to determine its own policy.

I've always thought you should concentrate on paddling your own canoe.

I never see the dawn that I don't say to myself perhaps.

Life is to be used, not just held in the hand like a box of bonbons that nobody eats.

It's rather grisly, isnt it, how soon a living man becomes nothing more than a collection of stocks and bonds and debts and real estate?

May you find a sacred strength to fulfill our dreams in the coming year.

I may not have been sure about what really did interest me, but I was absolutely sure about what didn't.

Art matures. It is the formal elaboration of activity, complete in its own pattern. It is a cosmos of its own.

A goal is the basic unit of life design.

Knowledge is lost without putting it into practice; a man is lost due to ignorance; an army is lost without a commander; and a woman is lost without a husband.

The waste from power plants is essentially what is left over when you burn coal. And as we all know, coal is a relatively dirty mineral.

Ive come to believe in the primacy of form - the notion of art seducing you through your senses, through your eyeballs.

Is courage just the awareness that gestures, journeys, lives have intrinsic shape, and must, one way or another, be completed?

Satan has no power over us except as we give it to him. God never forces us to do right, and Satan has no power to force us to do wrong.

There is no doubt that if Donald [Trump] steamrolls through Super Tuesday, wins everywhere with big margins, that he may well be unstoppable. I don't think that will happen.