What is more important in a library than anything else-than everything else-is the fact that it exists.

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 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.

that great condenser of moral chaos, The City.

SHEShe makes me smileDeep deep insideBefore you can see it on my faceBefore I met herShe can make me smile in my past

If I were to work with my mom, I probably would not want her to play my mom. That would get too real.

Some of the Hulk movies have been merely okay. I think the thing to do... there has to be some stab that makes it something we haven't seen before.

Because CoEd's doing incredible work in Guatemala so how can I not #tieoneon?

Many biblical verses are like inkblot tests, revealing more about us than about the text in question.

Love is the fruit of prayer ... Patiently abiding in prayer signifies a man's renunciation of himself. Therefore the self-denial of the soul turns into love for God.

As the State is a soulless machine, it can never be weaned from violence to which it owes its very existence.

My father had a very violent temper, and he was never home. So I was kind of a mama's boy.

You shouldn't be ashamed of your pain. You have the right to have your pain treated.