The cost of a thing is something called life which is given in exchange for it.
A poet's hope: to be, like some valley cheese, local, but prized elsewhere.
Civilizations should be measured by the degree of diversity attained and the degree of unity retained.
We would rather be ruined than changed. We would rather die in our dread than climb the cross of the moment and let our illusions die.
My deepest feeling about politicians is that they are dangerous lunatics to be avoided when possible and carefully humored; people, above all, to whom one must never tell the truth.
We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know.
All that we are not stares back at what we are.
The Gunman is useless. I know it. He knows it. The whole bank knows it.
Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so shall you become.
The world is dying for want, not of good preaching, but of good hearing.
The acquisition of riches has been for many men, not an end, but a change, of troubles.