The shivering birds beneath the eaves Have sheltered for the night.

If a man is not faithful to his own individuality, he cannot be loyal to anything.

Human dignity is more precious than prestige.

I know the dark delight of being strange, The penalty of difference in the crowd, The loneliness of wisdom among fools.

If we must die, let it not be like hogs Hunted and penned in an inglorious spot, If we must die, O let us nobly die.

We are like trees. We wear all colors naturally.

Nations, like plants and human beings, grow. And if the development is thwarted they are dwarfed and overshadowed.

It's when you are down that you learn about your faults.

Idealism is like a castle in the air if it is not based on a solid foundation of social and political realism.

If we must die, O let us nobly die.

Adventure-seasoned and storm-buffeted, I shun all signs of anchorage, because The zest of life exceeds the bound of laws.

I do not see how a man can work on the frontiers of physics and write poetry at the same time. They are in opposition.

You specialize in something until one day it is specializing in you.

I've been married forty-five years. I think laughter is the secret.

When we come to the end of self we come to the beginning of Christ.

To simplify complications is the first essential of success.

All literary style, especially national style, is made up of such coincidences, which are a spiritual sort of puns. That is why style is untranslatable.

The shadows of things are greater than themselves; and the more exaggerated the shadow, the more unlike the substance.

I just need some time away to remember why I stay.

I hate the thought of animals being killed just for our pleasure...

Passion is overcome only by him who has won through stillness of spirit the perfect vision; it comes through the contentment that is regardless of the world.