Only themselves understand themselves and the like of themselves, As souls only understand souls.

I celebrate myself, and sing myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.

Resist much, obey little.

Peace is always beautiful.

Battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.

And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud.

I think I will do nothing for a long time but listen, And accrue what I hear into myself...and let sound contribute toward me.

For we cannot tarry here, We must march my darlings, we must bear the brunt of danger, We, the youthful sinewy races, all the rest on us depend, Pioneers! O pioneers!

If you want me again look for me under your boot soles.

not one escaped to tell the fall of Alamo, The hundred & fifty are dumb yet at Alamo.

The untold want, by life and land ne'er granted, Now, Voyager, sail thou forth, to seek and find.

The positive vibrations of unregulated joy, peace, happiness and tranquility is freedom.

Jus' live the day. Don' worry yaself.

If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.

A great leader cannot worry about being well liked.

I like rock music. I like jazz better, though.

Courage is the enabling virtue for any philosopher - for any human being, I think, in the end. Courage to think, courage to love, courage to hope.

I would like my work to be thought of as a celebration of life and nature.

Here, on the river's verge, I could be busy for months without changing my place, simply leaning a little more to right or left.

If there's an enduring theme in my work, it's probably the effects of class on American life.

Reverence is the sense that there is something larger than the self, larger even than the human, to which one accords respect and awe and assent.