Man can live his truth, his deepest truth, but cannot speak it.

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

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

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.

I felt drunk on Chase and high on summertime. Why did that sound just like a country song?

When I write, I am gossiping. Writing to whisper the story, whether good or bad to my listener.

I'm just a kid. I've got a lot of stuff to do yet.

Before a brain can register a thought, a mind must think it... every step of the way is mind over matter... We override our brains all the time.

people always live for ever when there is an annuity to be paid them

The U.S. started with no stars. In fact, it started with a completely different flag. The last two were added in 1959, Hawaii and Alaska.

You can always tell who went to catholic school, because they're atheists.

Zionism, like other self-determination movements.

He who does not want to die should not want to live. For life is tendered to us with the proviso of death. Life is the way to this destination.

Intelligence. Nothing has caused the human race so much trouble as intelligence.