The American journey has not ended. America is always still to build ... West is a country in the mind, and so eternal.

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.

What good is faith if it causes pain for another? What good is religion if it does no good? What good is any belief that leads to hate?

Love of democracy can be likened to a mother's love for her son.It must be cherished, nurtured and protected for all of time

There will be many challenges ahead, and I'm looking forward to them.

We come into the world alone and we die alone. Why, in life, should we be any less alone?

It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it.

I watched him [a 'fat Russian agent'] with some interest, for it was the first time that I had seen a person whose profession was telling lies -- unless one counts journalists.

If you ask me, what is helpful to creativity is training the eye to notice things, to observe closely and precisely, being careful not to make a muddle of it.

I cannot bring myself to vote for a woman who has been voice-trained to speak to me as though my dog has just died.

You need to pray. Donald Trump is who he is - and that's one thing that politicians are not. It's all "game playing."

Let Time and Chance combine, combine! Let Time and Chance combine! The fairest love from heaven above, That love of yours was mine, My Dear! That love of yours was mine.