You can't crush ideas by suppressing them. You can only crush them by ignoring them.

Life is a loom, weaving illusion.

They tried to get me-I got them first! (suicide note)

Never be a cynic, even a gentle one. Never help out a sneer, even at the devil.

Change the fabric of your own soul and your own visions, and you change all.

Authors and uncaptured criminals are the only people free from routine.

How can we help students to understand that the tragedy of life is not death; the tragedy is to die with commitments undefined and convictions undeclared and service unfulfilled?

They tried to get me - I got them first! [Suicide.]

Except the Christ be born again tonight In dreams of all men, saints and sons of shame, The world will never see his kingdom bright.

The only thing that a man may do that is new, is to write himself on human hearts.

My life is unjust, but I can strive for justice. My life is unkind, but I can vote for kindness.

To the extent that one is responsible for one's life, one is alone.

Is Christianity fair? It is certainly not fair to God. Christians believe that God sent His Son to die for your sins and mine. Fairness would demand that we die for our own sins.

And you can always, always, give kindness

Soon it will be a sin of parents to have a child that carries the heavy burden of genetic disease. We are entering a world where we have to consider the quality of our children.

We are made to be immortal, and yet we die. It's horrible, it can't be taken seriously

The love of power is the demon of mankind.

Fighters have to be optimists.

To say that 'I will not be free till all humans (or all sentient creatures) are free' is simply to cave in to a kind of nirvana-stupor, to abdicate our humanity, to define ourselves as losers.

Virtue, vain word, futile shadow, slave of chance! Alas! I believe in thee!

He was the ghost you never saw coming, death breathing down your neck before you even realized you were in the crosshairs.