The miracle is to walk on the earth.
All my life I have fought against prejudice and intolerance.
I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.
Ignorance and its hand-maidens, prejudice, intolerance, suspicion of our fellowman, breed dictators and breed wars.
Without a strong educational system democracy is crippled. Knowledge is not only key to power. It is the citadel of human freedom.
I never would have agreed to the formulation of the Central Intelligence Agency back in forty-seven, if I had known it would become the American Gestapo.
There are always a lot of people so afraid of rocking the boat that they stop rowing. We can never get ahead that way.
I just walk around, observing the subject from various angles until the picture elements arrange themselves into a composition that pleases my eye.
I always want to work.
what are we all sent into the world for, but to be of use to each other?
I seem to keep returning to my father in poems because his personality was so extreme, so driven. He did everything to excess.