We have no choice but to be guilty. God is unthinkable if we are innocent.

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.

You are going to find that buying the car is much less satisfying than working for it.

Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never.

Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral. They have the same effect of grating incongruity as the sound of a coarse voice breaking the solemn silence of night.

We cannot distribute more wealth than is created. We cannot in the long run pay labor as a whole more than it produces.

I really believe in clothes that are new, that are innovative - but that everybody wants to wear.

Thoughts and prayers go out to Michael Weiner's family. A great leader and man. Going to be missed.

So much I feel my genial spirits droop, My hopes all flat, nature within me seems In her functions weary of herself.

Education had been easy. Learning things had been harder.

About the different levels of skill involved. You have to practice before you become a great masturbator.

Just look at me now - I've never been so happy in my life!