“That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another.”

Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans.

the great mountains, and the sea. He means that he loves an inner air, an inner light in which freedom lives and in which a man can draw the breath of self-respect.

Great or small–to have weight, to have a vote, to be attended to, to be a part of the twentieth century.

The boldness to face them, face them square.

You can tell the size of a man by the size of the thing that makes him mad.

Change is inevitable, change for the better is a full-time job.

We must also be certain that there is no one true faith or path by which it may spread.

Be solved if we have the will, the courage

There is…a spiritual hunger in the world today and it cannot be satisfied..

My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.

Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age.

The time to stop a revolution is at the beginning, not the end.

And when we lose faith in the system

So we must never neglect any work of peace within our reach, however small.

Communism is the corruption of a dream of justice.

A hungry man is not a free man.

Each night about this time he puts on sadness like a garment and goes on writing.

Lucretius, who follows [Epicurus] in denouncing love, sees no harm in sexual intercourse provided it is divorced from passion.

The evil that we know is best.

The journey of a thousand leagues begins with a single step.

I moved there when I was 19 so I developed a close knit group of friends

Joylessness may be the sin most readily tolerated by the church.

Give assistance, and receive thanks lighter than a feather: injure a man, and his wrath will be like lead.

The fire in your bones, will fuel the light in your heart that will make flowers bloom from your soul.