Still bent to make some port he knows not where, still standing for some false impossible shore.

Our society distributes itself into Barbarians, Philistines and Populace; and America is just ourselves with the Barbarians quite left out, and the Populace nearly.

If there ever comes a time when the women of the world come together purely and simply for the benefit of mankind, it will be a force such as the world has never known.

Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.

The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.

Like driftwood spares which meet and pass Upon the boundless ocean-plain, So on the sea of life, alas! Man nears man, meets, and leaves again.

Philistine must have originally meant, in the mind of those who invented the nickname, a strong, dogged, unenlightened opponent of the chosen people, of the children of the light.

Life is not having and getting, but being and becoming

He will find one English book and one only, where, as in the "Iliad" itself, perfect plainness of speech is allied with perfect nobleness; and that book is the Bible.

Strew on her roses, roses, And never a spray of yew! In quiet she reposes; Ah, would that I did too!

Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.

I don’t feel that my faith is threatened by evolution at all. If I were convinced of Darwinian evolution some day, I would just become a Theistic Evolutionist like the guys at BioLogos.

You may be sure that the Americans will commit all the stupidities they can think of, plus some that are beyond imagination.

Maybe any love we ever have is an angel in whatever form.

I know a member of one of New York's first families (first as you drive up Tenth Avenue)

In each life, no matter how it's lived, there is cause for fascination and often delight

Whatever the world condemns you for, make it your own. It is yourself.

Creativity is an unending exercise in uncertainty.

Don't look for an unshakable rock to stand on; there ain't any! Rather, learn how to stand still on a shaking rock!

Living up to other people's expectations is always difficult.

Seems to me that the institutions that function in this country are clearly racist, and that they're built upon racism.