The best poetry will be found to have a power of forming, sustaining, and delighting us, as nothing else can.

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.

Perhaps there is some secret sort of homing instinct in books that brings them to their perfect readers. How delightful if that were true.

I'd love to be popular in Barcelona. That sounds like a fun job

Transgression of any kind is always accompanied by a loss of self-esteem.

I'm a New Yorker. I like the big streets and the big buildings. It's a great place to walk.

Long, long before I became a filmmaker I was talking to killers. Filmmaking was an after thought.

I had as well be killed running as die standing

A truly Suppressive Person or group has no rights of any kind and actions taken against them are not punishable.

Start locally and build. Start small and grow. Start in your house, then move to your school, your book club, your gym, your church, your temple, your city.

Success flourishes only in perseverance ceaseless, restless perseverance.

What's a man's age? He must hurry more, that's all; Cram in a day, what his youth took a year to hold.