Instead of looking on discussion as a stumbling block in the way of action, we think it an indispensable preliminary to any wise action at all.

What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.

Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.

Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you!

Those who can think, but cannot express what they think, place themselves at the level of those who cannot think.

I am more afraid of our own mistakes than of our enemies' designs.

We do not say that a man who takes no interest in public affairs is a man who minds his own business. We say he has no business being here at all.

As for poverty, no one need be ashamed to admit it, the real shame is in not taking practical measures to escape from it.

Those who can truly be accounted brave are those who best know the meaning of what is sweet in life and what is terrible, and then go out, undeterred, to meet what is to come.

Better die standing than live kneeling.

Time is the wisest counselor of all.

I saw [Allen Ginsberg] more as an old man who liked poetry and who had a lot of physical and emotional problems. We liked our time together.

We must be for ourselves in the long run; the mild and generous are only more justly selfish than the domineering.

I do not know why it is the fate of the world always to want something different from what life gives them.

Back of my forehead I feel tonight A whole sky full of stars. Under a western moon. Life is indeed lovely!

Run often. Run long. But never outrun your joy of running.

My grandparents got married at a very young age, and a lot of what I think about marriage is based on their relationship.

The best thing about the past is that it's over. The best thing about the future is that it's yet to come. The best thing about the present is that it's here now.

If I could just touch the hem of His garment I know I'll be made whole

I'm Tally Youngblood. Make me pretty." -Tally Youngblood

I like to go and do something adventurous. I like to go out and do some sort of crazy activity.