Odo said it all her life. 'Only peace brings peace, only just acts bring justice!

You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere.

There's a point, around the age of twenty, when you have to choose whether to be like everybody else the rest of your life, or to make a virtue of your peculiarities.

You can’t crush ideas by suppressing them. You can only crush them by ignoring them. By refusing to think, refusing to change.

A scientist can pretend that his work isn't himself, it's merely the impersonal truth. An artist can't hide behind the truth. He can't hide anywhere.

The individual cannot bargain with the State. The State recognizes no coinage but power: and it issues the coins itself.

Where does your soul go, when you die in Hell?

Nothing said in words ever came out quite even. Things in words got twisted and ran together, instead of staying straight and fitting together.

Dead anarchists make martyrs, you know, and keep living for centuries. But absent ones can be forgotten.

There is no break in the wholeness of time.

They argued because they liked argument, liked the swift run of the unfettered mind along the paths of possibility, liked to question what was not questioned.

Life is a joyful journey.

and I shall watch the ferry boats, and they'll get high, on a bluer ocean against tomorrow's sky. and i will never grow so old again, and i will walk and talk, in gardens all wet with rain...

The Glass has Shattered but the Cross Remains

The worst thing about slavery is that the slaves eventually get to like it.

I learned a long time ago that minor surgery is when they do operation on someone else, not you.

A keen sense of humor helps us to overlook the unbecoming, understand the unconventional, tolerated the unpleasant, overcome the unexpected, and outlast the unbearable.

Governments grow as God declines, in both Europe and the United States

I never wanted to set the world on fire. So I never had to burn any bridges behind me.

I don't feel like I have the intelligence to really inhabit a consistently high level of prose.

I couldn't have felt more of lonely desolation somehow, had I been robbed of a belief or had missed my destiny in life.