Mind is a light which the Gods mock us with, To lead those false who trust it.

Our society distributes itself into Barbarians, Philistines and Populace; and America is just ourselves with the Barbarians quite left out, and the Populace nearly.

If there ever comes a time when the women of the world come together purely and simply for the benefit of mankind, it will be a force such as the world has never known.

Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.

The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.

Like driftwood spares which meet and pass Upon the boundless ocean-plain, So on the sea of life, alas! Man nears man, meets, and leaves again.

Philistine must have originally meant, in the mind of those who invented the nickname, a strong, dogged, unenlightened opponent of the chosen people, of the children of the light.

Life is not having and getting, but being and becoming

He will find one English book and one only, where, as in the "Iliad" itself, perfect plainness of speech is allied with perfect nobleness; and that book is the Bible.

Strew on her roses, roses, And never a spray of yew! In quiet she reposes; Ah, would that I did too!

Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.

There’s no question that Laura – in more than one way, for many reasons – danced with the devil and paid a terrible price.

You'll find God in the church of your choice, you'll find Woody Guthrie in the Brooklyn State Hospital.

Small unit democracy, I found early on, didn't work for me.

Remind yourself of the value of detaching from work that's out of your hands and committing to new work that wants to be born.

Dada is like your hopes: nothing like your paradise: nothing like your idols: nothing like your heroes: nothing like your artists: nothing like your religions: nothing

I love you not as something private and personal, which is my own, but as something universal and worthy of love which I have found.

I've known people whose faces rested naturally in a smile and I'm certain their lives were much different because of that.

When you arrive at your destination, pay absolutely no attention to the thing people call jetlag.

You cannot divide human beings into those who worship and those who don't. Everybody worships; it's just a matter of what, or whom, we serve.

The more profoundly we study this wonderful Book, and the more closely we observe its divine precepts, the better citizens we will become and the higher will be our destiny as a nation.