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.

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.

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.

See the world as it truly is, small and blue, beautiful in that eternal silence where it floats.

The path leading to stability is always opened to the sons of God

This isn't a reasoned response to a configuration of stars, but the heart cannot flourish on logic alone. Unreason is an essential medicine as long as you don't overdose

Our wounds are the only thing humbling enough to break our attachment to our false self.

I can be in the worst PMS, Mercury in retrograde, most awful circumstance - and then if my girlfriends and I are giggling about it, everything's okay.

I think you write only out of a great trouble. A trouble of excitement, a trouble of enlargement, a trouble of displacement in yourself.

The sea never changes and its works, for all the talks of men, are wrapped in mystery.

The true work of art continues to unfold and create within the personality of the spectator. It is a continuous coming into being.

The landscape of the American West has to be seen to believed and has to be believed to be seen.

We've gotten to the point where everybody's got a right and nobody's got a responsibility.

Prayer does not enable us to do a greater work for God. Prayer is a greater work for God.