What is more important to a library than anything else -- than everything else -- is the fact that it ex

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.

Lord of all pots and pans and things make me a saint by getting meals and washing up the plates!

"What are you doing here anyway?" "'Here' as in your bedroom or 'here' as in the great spiritual question of our purpose here on this planet?"

We have far more ability than we give ourselves credit for.

How many times have I told you, don't get caught by the bad guys!

Never work before breakfast; if you have to work before breakfast, eat your breakfast first.

A perfect peace is not possible; it doesn't exist.

Hatred of humanity and love of animals make a very bad combination.

Nowadays people are born to find fault. When they look at Achilles, they see only his heel.

She was a great cook, but she cooked more for herself than for other people, not because she was hungry but because she was comforted by the rituals of the kitchen.

Becoming pretty doesn't just change the way you look," she said. "No," David said. "It changes the way you think.