There would be no value in worship services and symbols did they not, preserved in their Purity and Beauty, serve as aids to right living.

Hope is the boat we ride to reach the shore of our desires.

Evermore in the world is this marvelous balance of beauty and disgust, magnificence and rats.

To be a revolutionary you have to be a human being. You have to care about people who have no power.

Like any young person, I do what I want.

The words of the social critic Eric Hoffer were ringing true: "Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and turns into a racket."

Let the human mind loose. It must be loose. It will be loose. Superstition and dogmatism cannot confine it.

"What Thou wilt, when Thou wilt, how Thou wilt." I had rather speak these three sentences from my heart in my mother tongue than be master of all the languages in Europe.

Freedom without opportunity is a devil's gift, and the refusal to provide such opportunities is criminal

My earliest memory? Trying to use a red jelly bean as lipstick.

Whether you're talking about bees, dogs, or women, pain can come upon you quickly from either one of em.