The only thing about a man that is a man . . . is his mind. Everything else you can find in a pig or a horse.

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.

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.

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.

It's solitary drinking that makes drunkards.

Success = 1 part work + 1 part play + 1 part keep your mouth shut

It seems very strange that one must turn back, and be transported to the very beginnings of history, in order to arrive at an understanding of humanity as it is at present.

Nothing embarrassing, but hopefully I can call myself a gentleman because of my father.

There are many things in life that cannot be explained.

A murderer is only an extroverted suicide.

I examine the consequences later, when a new situation arises and I then face the new situation. And that's it.

Sometimes it’s all you can do,” he murmured. “Fight back; run wild, until you get it all out.” “Sometimes there is nothing to fight and nowhere to run.

You don't have to act as if you care; you just have to care enough to act.

The burden of the incommunicable.