I believe, however, that impending events will call us and we must respond but where, with whom, and how?

The Thames is liquid history.

I neither drink nor smoke, because my schoolmaster impressed upon me three cardinal virtues; cleanliness in person, cleanliness in mind; temperance.

I recognise that Socialism has ended its purely theoretical course, and that the hour to construct has come.

Books are a real solace, friendships are good but action is better than all.

Why four great powers should fight over Serbia no fellow can understand.

I am depressed rather at the wave of brutality sweeping over the country.

You come before me this morning with clean hands and clean collars. I want you to have clean tongues, clean manners, clean morals and clean characters.

For the moment and for some time great events have been denied me, forward action not come my way.

My duty is clear and at all costs will be done.

Don't hustle old people.

Things can harden meaningfully in the moment of indecision

Every men create some sound. Be a melody in this universe not a noise! If you become a melody, the whole universe will listen to you!

Don't depend on anyone too much. Even your shadow leaves when it's dark.

To be alive is to totally and openly participate in the simplicity and elegance of here and now.

He travels fastest who travels alone, and that goes double for she. Real feminism is spinsterhood.

Criticism is a surreal state, like a good drug gone bad. When it's bad you wish it would stop, and when it's good, you can't get enough.

In turbulent times, in times of great change, people head for the two extremes: fundamentalism and personal, spiritual experience.

You know it's easy to say you shouldn't do something and then something happens and you say, 'Wow, I wish I would have done something.

My take is this. The Republicans control the Senate. They have the majority of the House, and they have the White House. They can do whatever they want to do, really.

To fight is to face death once more, perhaps the total annihilation of their kind. But to run... is that not also a kind of annihilation?