There is nothing more poetic than the truth. He who does not see poetry in it will always be a poor versifier outside of it.

Immortality without eternity is a rope with only one end.

Two left-handed gloves don't make a pair. Two half-truths don't make a truth.

Seen from the moon we are all the same size.

Perhaps nothing is entirely true, not even this.

There is only one evil, one crime, one sin: lack of heart.

Principles are things which one calls upon to avoid something unpleasant.

One must live with all, e'en if life be hell: Crime makes shame, not monetary stricture.

It's unfair of a circle to accuse the angle of being sharp.

Endeavour-with most diligent labour, O aspiring artist!-to master content. The form will rise to meet you.

One must live with all, e'en if life be hell: Crime makes shame, not monetary stricture

A man with no humility and integrity can only impress small minds with his worldly possessions .

We don't get harmony when everybody sings the same note. Only notes that are different can harmonize. The same is true with people.

Two thousand people a day were being murdered in Vietnam in a terrorist war, an official terrorist war.

To me, sweat is workout bliss.

Being in the wrong place never helps you do the right thing

If we cannot be free, we can at least be cheap

I think history is only ever invisible when it abets your sense of self, your desires, your ambitions, when it carries your life along in a kind of frictionless way.

Even a bad man is better than a good book.

As I've always said: The future lies ahead.

It's unlikely that you'll create something scarce without doing something risky to get there.