There are enough cowards in the world without killing a brave creature for so little reason.

There is no greater evil than killing. I don't care whether they call it war or justice. Life is precious.

I refuse to be put in a cage that gleams golden for many, but bronze for me. I would much rather be a dove in the sky, flying out into the open, into the sky, into the beyond.

Poetry frees the soul of its burdens through pure expressions. -

I remember my youth and the feeling that will never come back any more - the feeling that I could last forever outlast the sea the earth and all men.

The Arcadians were chestnut-eaters.

I'm very optimistic. I think if you would describe me, my pretty consistent affect is that I'm a pretty happy person.

Educational romanticism asks too much from students at the bottom of the intellectual pile, asks the wrong things from those in the middle, and asks too little from those at the top.

If you have some idea you believe in, don't listen to the croaking chorus. Listen only to what your own inner voice tells you.

Never apologize for your success because you worked hard for it.

In boxing, if you think you will lose... you're already halfway there.

When I was very young every grownup was a hero. It's been all downhill since then, and I have only two left.